scales are the grammar of music.

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!

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.

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.

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

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!