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

Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.

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

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

don'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.

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.