The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

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.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.