Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
Dorothy Canfield FisherVermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherthere's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher