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.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

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.

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

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.

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.