Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.