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.

scales are the grammar of music.

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.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

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!

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

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