The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

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

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

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

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.

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