I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

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.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.