Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no. "
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
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.
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.
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.
It began as a mistake.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.