Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

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

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

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.