There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.