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.

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.

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!

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

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.