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.

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?

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

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

There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

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

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.