In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.