The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
- Thomas Jefferson
With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring,
And asters purple asterisks for autumn
- Conrad Aiken
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman