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.

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

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

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

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.