“If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.”

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

He who considers too much will perform little.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

I am my own heaven and hell!

The world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

The first great law is to obey.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Love is the reward of love.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

Isn’t it a lovely thing watching flowers greet the wind as if a gentle kiss is all they need to dance.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

The world is conditioned to admire flowers. Keep watering your roots.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Pain made me grow in the most unexpected places. And now I know what it feels like to be a wildflower.

Never again will I hand deliver my heart to a man holding flowers when the thorns cut me deeper than the flowers ever made me happy.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Storms can ruin gardens, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see flowers again.