A Mere Copier Of Nature Can Never

Gardening As Far As Gardening Is Art, Or Entitled To That Appellation, Is A Deviation From Nature; For If The True Taste Consists, As Many Hold, In Banishing Every Appearance Of Art, Or Any Traces Of The Footsteps Of Man, It Would Then Be No Longer A Garden.

Genius Is Supposed To Be A Power Of Producing Excellences Which Are Put Of The Reach Of The Rules Of Art: A Power Which No Precepts Can Teach, And Which No Industry Can Acquire.

The Excellence Of Every Art, Must Consist In The Complete Accomplishment Of Its Purpose

Taste Depends Upon Those Finer Emotions Which Make The Organization Of The Soul.

There Can Be No Doubt But That He Who Has The Most Materials Has The Greatest Means Of Invention.