Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sunday
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Sunday is like a stile between the fields and toil, where we can kneel and pray, or sit and meditate.
—Henry W. Longfellow