Footpaths to Peace
Poem from the McMichael Gallery. It was an early piece of commercial art done by Tom Thomson. There was a forest landscape done in pen and ink which included the quote by Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) below:
Footpaths to Peace
To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be contented with your possessions, but not satisfied with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors.....these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
