Flower Constancy

Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or constancy:

“Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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