When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

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.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

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.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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.