Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.