A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.