Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

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

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

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.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

The gardener's work is never at 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.

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

Explore everything; keep the best

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

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

Every time I see you, I have to admit that rest of us are more uglier than I thought.

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.

Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.