Occupation: Author Birth: February 17, 1879 Death: November 9, 1958
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?.
What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?.
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or yo….
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live..
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old,….
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, t….
I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of ….
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary..
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell..
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a ….
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young..
help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism..
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself..
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve..
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye..
The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hop….
Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect..
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace….
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed..
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored..
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction….