American
Naturalist and
Essayist
(April 3,
1837 -
March 29,
1921)
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
"One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking."
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."
