I just never was the marrying kind.
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
Money can't buy happiness.
Everything is your fault. You made me fall in love with you, and now I'm so upset I can't think or sleep or eat.