On New Year's Day Every Calendar, Large

One Reason We Haven't Any National Art Is Because We Have Too Much Magnificence. All Our Capacity For Admiration Is Used Up On The Splendor Of Palace-like Railway Stations And Hotels. Our National Tympanum Is So Deafened By That Blare Of Sumptuousness That We Have No Ears For The Still, Small Voice Of Beauty.

Compared With More Emotional Types, Vermonters Seem To Have Few Passions. But Those They Have Are Great And Burning. The Greatest Is Their Conviction That Without Freedom Human Life Is Not Worth Living.

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.

What Better Can Any Of Us Do Than To Reach For Our Own Stars ... And Know Which They Are?

History Is Worth Reading When It Tells Us Truly What The Attitude Toward Life Was In The Past.