Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

No umbrella, getting soaked, I'll just use the rain as my raincoat.

A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms.

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.