A garden is to me the most beautiful thing in the world.

There's something sacred about it.
Everything that's beautiful is good, and if it isn't beautiful it can't be good, and when one realises beauty one is happy.

That's why I feel so much happier in gardens than in church." "Why, aren't you fond of church ?" asked St Aubyn, amused.
"A garden makes me happier," said Austin.

"Religion seems to encourage pain, and ugliness, and mourning.

I don't know why it should, but nearly all the very religious people I know are solemn and melancholy, as though they hadn't wits enough to be anything else.