it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

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.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

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

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.