An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

- Vida Dutton Scudder

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

- Vida Dutton Scudder

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

- Vida Dutton Scudder

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

- Vida Dutton Scudder

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

- Vida Dutton Scudder

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

- Vida Dutton Scudder

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

- Vida Dutton Scudder