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.

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

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.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

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.