Spring Quotes

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato, The Republic

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli