They will tell you that you are like Endymion, whom Diana made sleep until the twig on which he leaned his head had become a tree.

How buoyant the earth must be, when every twig becomes a feather!"

Everybody agrees in the obvious propositions, "An ounce of prevention""As the twig is bent""The child is father to the man""Train up a child""A stitch in time""Prevention is better than cure""Where the lambs go the flocks will follow""It is easier to form than to reform," and so on ad infinitumproverbs multiply.

The shadows of the tree-trunks lie black and defined across the roadbranches, twigs, every thingthen comes a sweep of steely cloud, and they disappear, swallowed up in one uniform gray: a colorless moment or two passes, and the sun pushes out again; and they start forth distinct and defined, each little shoot and great limb, into new life on the bright ground.