A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

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.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

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

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 compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

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!