A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
What’s the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren’t enough folks with sense to go around?
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.
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it – why – there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Taking somebody’s sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You’re only the poorer.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It’s so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.
You think religion is what’s inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it’s not. It’s wings! Wings!
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.