Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips, MCR software, 1995.
-- Fulke Greville, (Oct 3 1554-1628), English poet; He is best remembered as a powerful philosophical poet and exponent of a plain style of writing.