The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
- Chinese proverb
How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!
- Colette
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerald De Nerval