A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

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

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 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.

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

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

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