The gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Yet, all beneath the unrivalled rose,
The lowly daisy sweetly blows;
Tho' large the forest's monarch throws
His army shade,
Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows,
Adown the glade. [ Burns ]

Heaven is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit, round by round. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. [ Wordsworth ]

Deeds of lowly virtue fade before the glare of lofty ostentation. [ Klopstock ]

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Fortune is gentle to the lowly, and heaven strikes the humble with a light hand. [ Seneca ]

We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. [ Emerson ]

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [ Jesus ]

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. [ E. P. Whipple ]