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 feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.