My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.
Edmond RostandTo joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
Edmond RostandAll my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.
Edmond Rostand