Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.
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
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!