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.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

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.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

For those who love... time is eternity.

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