Speech is always bolder than action.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

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.