Last Saturday

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.... ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. ~Author Unknown

Sweet childish days, that were as long

As twenty days are now.

~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James