“Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”

“The sweetest flowers in all the world—
A baby's hands.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

“Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.”

Noah Webster (1758–1843) lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Soft as church music.”

Dan Patrick (1956) American sportscaster

“And yet, [Hitler] is not without a certain charm. But it is the soft, almost feminine charm of the Austrian! When he talks it is with a broad Austrian dialect.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

“Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

“All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

“Flowers rejoice when night is done,
Lift their heads to greet the sun;
Sweetest looks and odours raise,
In a silent hymn of praise.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat