Who said “'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded…”?

“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.”

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

“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.”

“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”

“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

“A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.”

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”