Nothing is menial where there is love.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.