It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.