The dominant expression of a child is gravity.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
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.
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