Hamilton Wright Mabie

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.