Doth logic in the lily hide, And where's the reason in the rose? - Alfred Austin

There is no office in this needful world
But dignifies the doer if done well.

[W]henever one wants to cite something wise and true, one has to go either to the ancients or to the eighteenth century for it.

Where in the lily lurks the mind,
Where in the rose discern the soul? More mindless still, stream, pasture, lake;
The mountains yet more heartless seem. […] It is their silence that appals,
Their aspect motionless that awes,
When searching spirit vainly calls
On the effect to bare the Cause.