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

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

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.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

Appearance rules the world.