Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

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.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.