In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay.... For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.