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

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

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.

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.

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.