What Is Fortune, What Is Fame? Futile

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.

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.

Four Things A Man Must Learn To Do If He Would Make His Record True; To Think Without Confusion Clearly; To Love His Fellowmen Sincerely; To Act From Honest Motives Purely; To Trust In God And Heav'n Securely.

A Friend Is What The Heart Needs All The Time.

Modest Egotism Is The Salt Of Conversation; You Do Not Want Too Much Of It, But If It Is Altogether Omitted, Everything Tastes Flat.