Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

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

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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.

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

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