Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.