Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

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

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.