If you are not something of a philosopher,-and by philosophy I understand a serene temper, and the maintaining of an equable mind under the sharpest disappointments,-I do not advise you to cultivate, or at any rate to grow enamoured of, a garden. (Alfred Austin)

If you are not something of a philosopher,-and by philosophy I understand a serene temper, and the maintaining of an equable mind under the sharpest disappointments,-I do not advise you to cultivate, or at any rate to grow enamoured of, a garden.

Alfred Austin

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