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 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 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.

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.

scales are the grammar of music.

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.