Help That Is Not Positively Necessary Is

Gossip ... Is Only Fiction Produced By Non-professionals.

Life Takes Hold Of Us With Strong Hands And Makes Us Greater Than We Thought.

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.

Everyone Bowed To That Unwritten Law Of Family Life Which Ordains That, In The Long Run, Everyone Submerges His Personal Preference In The Effort To Conform To That Of The Member Of The Circle Who Complains Most Loudly And Is Most Difficult To Satisfy.

Never Since The Dawn Of Human History, As Far As I Can Find Out, Did People Long Settled In Any Region Give A Friendly Welcome To Newcomers. One Of The Disagreeable Traits Of Our Human Nature Seems To Be To Dislike On Sight People Who Come Later Than The First Settlers.