Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

Love alone could waken love.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.