"Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."
- Elizabeth Zimmermann
"Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul."
- Author unknown, from The Ladies' Work Table Book, 1845