"And you really live by the river? What a jolly life!", said Mole.

"By it and with it and on it and in it," said the Rat.
"It's brother and sister to me, and aunts, and company, and food and
drink, and (naturally) washing. It's my world, and I don't want any other.
What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing."

From "Wind in the Willows" - Kenneth Greene, 1908.