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.

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

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.