Famous quotes containing the words source and/or tree:
“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs ... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)