Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.