Do what you're afraid to do.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.