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 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.

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.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.