... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.