Almost Anything Is Enough To Keep Alive

I'm As Fixed In My Opinion As The Man Who Thought He Was A Hard-boiled Egg.

You Can't Wish A Body Any Worse Luck Than To Get What He Wants.

On New Year's Day Every Calendar, Large And Small, Has The Same Number Of Dates. But We Soon Learn That The Years Are Of Very Different Lengths.

Vermont Tradition Is Based On The Idea That Group Life Should Leave Each Person As Free As Possible To Arrange His Own Life. This Freedom Is The Only Climate In Which (we Feel) A Human Being May Create His Own Happiness. ... Character Itself Lies Deep And Secret Below The Surface, Unknown And Unknowable By Others. It Is The Mysterious Core Of Life, Which Every Man Or Woman Has To Cope With Alone, To Live With, To Conquer And Put In Order, Or To Be Defeated By.

The Richness And Endless Variety Of Human Relationships ... That's What Authors, Even The Finest And Greatest, Only Succeed In Hinting At. It's A Hopeless Business, Like Trying To Dip Up The Ocean With A Tea-spoon.