A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
scales are the grammar of music.
A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.
One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.