One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.
—Henry David Thoreau
Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
—William Shakespeare
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
—Henry James
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
—Langston Hughes