Frances Parkinson Keyes
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!Collection: People
One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.Collection: Friends
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Heart
Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.Collection: Acceptance
A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.Collection: Doe
the only door into her bedroom led through the church.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Wrinkles
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.Collection: Wind
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.Collection: Mother
scales are the grammar of music.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Schedules
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!Collection: Lying