Vermont is a country unto itself.

Love alone could waken love.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.