“Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.”
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
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.