Flower Constancy

Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or constancy:

“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The constancy of the wise is nothing else but the knack of concealing their passion and trouble.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)