perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty. — 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
Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
