scales are the grammar of music.

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.

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!

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

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

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.