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.

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 true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

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.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.