I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

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

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.