No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.