Art Quote by William Shakespeare

“Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the…

— St. Francis de Sales

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.

— Christina Rossetti

“But can one be a blessing merely by being cheerful? Yes; moral beauty of any kind exerts a silent influence for good. It is…

— J.R. Miller

“Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art,”

— Patrick Branwell Brontë

“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed, And I am…

— William Blake

Believe me if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my…

— Thomas Moore

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest…

— Lord Byron

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

— Jules Verne

“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns…

— Michel de Montaigne

Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care…

— David Macbeth Moir

Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that…

— George Fox