Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

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

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.

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

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.