“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”

“But the sound of the church-going bell
These valleys and rocks never heard;
Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,
Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd.”

“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”

“Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.”

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”

“T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.”