Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes.

There is no duty the fulfillment of which will not make you happier, nor any temptation for which there is no remedy.

Seneca.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Henry D. Thoreau.

“The summer vanishes, but soon shall come

The glad young days of yet another year.

So do not mourn the passing of a joy,

But rather wait the coming of a good,