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

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

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

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

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.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.