"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within"

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower"

"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind"

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes"

"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk"

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable"

"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people"

"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit"

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine"

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"