Who said “The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness…”?

“I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.”

“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

“'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.”

“Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.”

“Earth laughs in flowers.”

“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.”

“There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...”

“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”