“A stainless love gathers happiness even in summer.”

“A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.”

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.”

“"Love is a myth", Grandfather Trout said. "Like summer."
"What?"
"In winter," Grandfather Trout said, "summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer."”

“Twas in the prime of summer-time
An evening calm and cool,
And four-and-twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school:
There were some that ran and some that leapt,
Like troutlets in a pool.”

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

“He had that love of life and love of people; he gathered people around him like other people gather butterflies or postage stamps.”

“Sound loves to revel in a summer night.”

“This summer which was now passing—never had anyone lived such a summer! Nature had given him the happiness of a blossom. She gave him love and a palace, and put precious poetry into his mouth; it was all one long, unbroken romance. And now everything was lost, his poems, his love and his palace, withered, burnt; forlorn and helpless, he faced the desolation of winter.”