"Spring is the time of year when..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Never sign a valentine with your own name.”

“Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.”

“By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!”

“Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.”

“Short summers lightly have a forward spring.”

“Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.”

“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.”

“Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.”

“How joyously the young sea-mewLay dreaming on the waters blue,Whereon our little bark had thrownA little shade, the only one;But shadows ever man pursue.”