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

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.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.