The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

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

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.