For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.