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

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

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.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

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.

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.

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