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.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

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.

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!

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.

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.