When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerard De Nerval
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-washed palings,
Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,
With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard,
With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
A sprig with its flower I break.
- Walt Whitman
flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
-Henry Ward Beckford