Nothing is menial where there is love.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

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

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

There’s nothing easier to ‘acquire’ than a girl with a broken heart.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.