The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is…

— Jonathan Swift

“We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and…

— Jonathan Swift

“Whatever noblest things the mind received, More and more foreign matter spoils the theme; And when the good of this world is achieved, What’s…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

— William Shakespeare

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit…

— George Herbert

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor…

— Albert Pike

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection,…

— Matthew Arnold

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to…

— Jonathan Swift

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

— A. A. Milne

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

— Marcus Aurelius

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of…

— Khalil Gibran

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably…

— Albert Einstein

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Benjamin Franklin