You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe 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.
Dorothy Canfield FisherFather sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherdon't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.
Dorothy Canfield FisherI never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher