Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

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