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

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.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

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

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.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

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.