Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

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

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

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.