Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is… — 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… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own… — 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
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at.… — 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
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much… — 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
