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

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

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.

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.

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

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