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.

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

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

Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

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

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.