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

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

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

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

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