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

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

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

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.