“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.” IfsMindHumansProduceParticularFlowerMethodFruitSpotsSoilHuman MindWeed Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.” MayFlowerTasteBeesExquisiteDisregardQuintessence Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
