Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.