“I'll beat you like a red headed stepchild.”

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all”

“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.”

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”

“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”

“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.”