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

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.

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.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

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

What is life, but one long risk?

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?