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

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

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?

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.

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.

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.