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

Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn….

Each lost day has its patron saint!.

It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be ab….

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again..

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

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death.

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

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!'.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers..

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies..

The dominant expression of a child is gravity..

Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!.

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains..

Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still..

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air..

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar..

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowle….

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house..

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!.

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone ….