Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. [ T. D. English ]

Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love. [ Landor ]

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The sin of pride is the sin of sins, in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. [ Trench ]

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams - they are the world in which he lives. [ Bettina von Arnim ]

Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]