Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Seek thy sacred self.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.