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

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

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

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