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 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.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

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

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

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.