Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.