“It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”

“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.*People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.”

“It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.”

“Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower.""Maybe, but honey is sweet, you know?”

“I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.”

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”