A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

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.

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.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.