"I WENT TO THE WOODS BECAUSE I WISHED TO LIVE DELIBERATEDLY, TO FRONT ONLY THE ESSENTIAL FACTS OF LIFE.

AND SEE IF I COULD NOT LEARN WHAT IT HAD TO TEACH AND NOT, WHEN I CAME TO DIE, DISCOVER THAT I HAD NOT LIVED."

~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Walden: Life in the Woods.

"Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again."
~ H. D. Thoreau, a Chinese inscription, cited in Walden: Life in the Woods.

Photo: Mount Olivet, Haldimand County, LWalker

"I do the very best I know how ~ the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

~ Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) American President

"These are the gifts I ask
Of Thee, Spirit serene:
Strength for the daily task,
Courage to face the road,
Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's load,
And, for the hours of rest that come between,
An inward joy of all things heard and seen."

~ Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) American author

Source: MOMENTS BRIGHT AND SHINING, C.R. Gibson Company,