It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.