“Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.”
“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.”
“...anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.”
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”