Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.


Aphorisms (1880/1893)


Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.

Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.

Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.

Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.