Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Girl
A girl is like a flower fresh gathered; but a guilty woman is a flower trodden under foot.
—Honoré de Balzac
The presence of a young girl is like the presence of a flower, the one gives its perfume to all that approach it, the other her grace to all that surround her.
—Louis Desnoyers