Serene, I Fold My Hands And Wait,

[theodore Roosevelt] Was A Naturalist On The Broadest Grounds, Uniting Much Technical Knowledge With Knowledge Of The Daily Lives And Habits Of All Forms Of Wild Life. He Probably Knew Tenfold More Natural History Than All The Presidents Who Had Preceded Him, And, I Think One Is Safe In Saying, More Human History Also.

One Is Tempted To Say That The Most Human Plants, After All, Are The Weeds.

To Learn Something New, Take The Path That You Took Yesterday.

Science Is A Capital Or Fund Perpetually Reinvested; It Accumulates, Rolls Up, Is Carried Forward By Every New Man. Every Man Of Science Has All The Science Before Him To Go Upon, To Set Himself Up In Business With. What An Enormous Sum Darwin Availed Himself Of And Reinvested! Not So In Literature; To Every Poet, To Every Artist, It Is Still The First Day Of Creation, So Far As The Essentials Of His Task Are Concerned. Literature Is Not So Much A Fund To Be Reinvested As It Is A Crop To Be Ever New-grown.

Literature Is An Investment Of Genius Which Pays Dividends To All Subsequent Times.