Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln