John Evelyn

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

There is in friendship something of all relations, and something above them all. It is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

The gardener's work is never at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits. . . .

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

We will endeavour to shew how the aire and genious of Gardens operat upon humane spirits towards virtue and sancitie, I meane in a remote, preparatory and instrumentall working. How Caves, Grotts, Mounts, and irregular ornaments of Gardens do contribute to contemplative and philosophicall Enthusiasms; how Elysium, Antrum, Nemus, Paradysus, Hortus, Lucus, &c.,signifie all of them rem sacram et divinam; for these expedients do influence the soule and spirits of man, and prepare them for converse with good Angells; besides which, they contribute to the lesse abstracted pleasures, phylosophy naturall and longevitie.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age.

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.