Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

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

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.