Donald G. Mitchell — American Writer

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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.