From bad manners good laws have sprung. [ Coke ]

Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never
But like a laurel, to grow green forever. [ Herrick ]

When peace and mercy, vanished from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again,
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind;
But Hope, the charmer, lingered still behind. [ Thomas Campbell ]

No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung: Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. [ Bishop Heber ]

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. [ Carlyle ]

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. [ O. W. Holmes ]

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof if carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung. [ Greville ]

The little flower which sprung up through the hard pavement of poor Picciola's prison was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here amid rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature. And O, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ Chapin ]

The little flower which sprung up through the hard payment of poor Picciola's prison, was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here, amid the rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature; and oh, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ E. H. Chapin ]