When a pepin is planted on a pepin-stock, the 25 fruit growing thence is called a renate, a most delicious apple, as both by sire and dame well descended. Thus his blood must needs be well purified who is gentilely born on both sides. Fuller.
When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Lamb.
When a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick, the dames of Allonby are ready to mount. Pr.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. La Bruyère.
When a thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it is a clear proof that it should be rejected. Vauvenargues.
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought 30 to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. Emerson.
When a tree is dead it will lie any way; alive, it will have its own growth. Ward Beecher.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift.
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. Goethe.
When a wise man findeth an occasion, he may bear away his enemy upon his shoulder, as it were. Hitopadesa.