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… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share
The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
