History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

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.

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

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

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