The Friend Is The Person

It Seems Sometimes As If One Were Powerless To Do Any More From Within To Overcome Troubles, And That Help Must Come From Without.

People Who Deal With Life Generously And Large-heartedly Go On Multiplying Relationships To The End.

I Am Sure It Is One's Duty As A Teacher To Try To Show Boys That No Opinions, No Tastes, No Emotions Are Worth Much Unless They Are One's Own. I Suffered Acutely As A Boy From The Lack Of Being Shown This.

Because Of A Friend, Life Is A Little Stronger, Fuller, More Gracious Thing For The Friend's Existence, Whether He Be Near Or Far. If The Friend Is Close At Hand, That Is Best; But If He Is Far Away He Still Is There To Think Of, To Wonder About, To Hear From, To Write To, To Share Life And Experience With, To Serve, To Honor, To Admire, To Love.

Ambition Often Puts Men Upon Doing The Meanest Offices; So Climbing Is Performed In The Same Position With Creeping.