Time is a waste of money.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

What a precious privilege to pray?

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.