Aesop

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." - Aesop

Norman Douglas

"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship." - Norman Douglas

Elizabeth Bowen

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day." - Elizabeth Bowen

Richard Jefferies

"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness." - Richard Jefferies

Kin Hubbard

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower." - Kin Hubbard

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

B. C. Forbes

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." - B. C. Forbes