You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

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

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292