A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.