Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!
I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.