But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

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

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

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.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.