A strangely reflective even melancholy day. Is that because unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Autumn arrives in early morning but spring at the close of a winter day.

I retire with a smile on my face in good health and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.