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

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.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

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.

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.

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.