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.

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

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

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.

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

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

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.