You Are Never To Lose Sight Of

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.

Few Have Been Taught To Any Purpose Who Have Not Been Their Own Teachers.

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

In The Practice Of Art... It Is Necessary To Keep A Watchful And Jealous Eye Over Ourselves; Idleness, Assuming The Specious Disguise Of Industry... May Be Employed To Evade And Shuffle Off Real Labor - The Real Labor Of Thinking.

There Is No Expedient To Which A Man Will Not Resort To Avoid The Real Labor Of Thinking.