A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
Each lost day has its patron saint!
Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.