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

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

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

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

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

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

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.