No Vermont Town Ever Let Anybody In

What A Fearfully Distracting, Perplexing And Heart-searching Business It Is To Live.

It Was Always Insolent For A Common Man To Take A Chair In The Presence Of A Lady - The Word Lady, We May Be Sure, Capitalized In Her Mind, And Denoting Not Sex But Rank.

One Of The Many Things Nobody Ever Tells You About Middle Age Is That It's Such A Nice Change From Being Young.

It Is Not Good For All Our Wishes To Be Filled; Through Sickness We Recognize The Value Of Health; Through Evil, The Value Of Good; Through Hunger, The Value Of Food; Through Exertion, The Value Of Rest.

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.