NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
“Ignorance is the only unpardonable sin.” 
“The man who cannot say no, never gets 
the opportunity to say yes.” 
“The greatest happiness in the world is to 
make others happy; the next greatest is to 
make them think.” 
On the wall above his head where he sits at 
meat is a little placard which reads—the 
words from Emerson: 
“Write it on your heart that every day is 
the best day in the year. . . . No man has 
learned anything rightly until he knows that 
every day is Doomsday. . . . Today is a 
king in disguise. Today always looks mean to 
the thoughtless, in the face of a uniform 
experience that all good and great and happy 
actions are made up precisely of those blank 
todays. Let us not be deceived, let us unmask 
the king as he passes.” 
No man could have done all the marvelous 
acts he has accomplished in the ennoblement 
of the earth unless he had had a deep, passion- 
ate love for all that is beautiful. Not all the 
years of unremitting study and research and 
tremendous toil have dulled, in the slightest 
degree, this love for the beautiful, whether it 
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