And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. – William Shakespeare
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. – William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings. – William Shakespeare
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. – Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909