If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.