Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

No man is good enough to be another's master.