"Friendship is a sheltering tree"- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"- William Shakespeare

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning"- James Russell Lowell

"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn"- Persian Proverb

I collected all these quotes from tea bags but it was worth it!