Flowers really do intoxicate me.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.