One Is Tempted To Say That The

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

[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 Can Only Learn His Powers Of Action By Action, And His Powers Of Thought By Thinking

Then, Again, How Annoying To Be Told It Is Only Five Miles To The Next Place When It Is Really Eight Or Ten!

Serene, I Fold My Hands And Wait, Nor Care For Wind, Nor Tide, Nor Sea; I Rave No More 'gainst Time Or Fate, For Lo! My Own Shall Come To Me.