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

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.

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.

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.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.