3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey 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.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey 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.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.