O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

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