Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]

There is nothing fruitful but sacrifice. [ M. Lamennias ]

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful. [ George Eliot ]

Rashness is the fruitful but unhappy parent of misfortune. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree. [ Rutherford ]

The most fruitful and elevating influence I have ever seemed to meet has been my impression of obligation to God. [ Daniel Webster ]

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers. [ Alcott ]

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. [ Chapin ]

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. [ Vauvenargues ]

Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. [ Carlyle ]

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. [ Zeno ]