In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible¹ summer.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

One swallow does not make a summer.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics²

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxter

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James (1843 - 1916)

Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James (1843 - 1916)

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), The Snow-Walkers

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate³:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XVIII