" I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. "

— Albert Einstein

" A brother is a first friend and a second father. "

— Unknown

" True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

— Helen Keller

" It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." "

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Distance makes the heart grow fonder. "

— Thomas Haynes Bayly