Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

Maidens should be seen, and not heard. [ Proverb ]

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]

Maidens shoud be mild and meek, quick to hear and slow to speak. [ Proverb ]

The desire to please everything having eyes seems inborn in maidens. [ Salamon Gessner ]

Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our servitude is near. [ Victor Hugo ]

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. [ Rivarol ]

If flowers have souls, said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers. They go, answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips. [ Richter ]