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

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

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

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

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.

The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.