Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. – Mark Twain

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866
