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.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

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.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

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.

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