The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

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

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

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.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.