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

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.

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

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

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

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.