John Evelyn Quotes

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

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

Explore everything; keep the best

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

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

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

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.

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