“It was August, and the fields were high with corn. The first flowers of autumn would soon begin to set the hedgerows aflame.”
"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Love
"What a lovely thing a rose is! ... Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. ... It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope
"What a lovely thing a rose is! ... Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope
"This rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope
"Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind"
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Integrity
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature