Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.
Dorothy Canfield FisherOn 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.
Dorothy Canfield FisherCompared 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.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher