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.

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!

scales are the grammar of music.

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.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.