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