Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.