help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

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

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

I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

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

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.

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