Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

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

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

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

If you fall, dare to rise up again.

An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.