I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

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.

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.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

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