Friend

"The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another." 
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated by Stuart Gilbert

Brave and patient

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

--Helen Keller

Nothing

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
--Blessed John Henry Newman

Snow forest

“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.”

--William Sharp

When he spoke

“When he spoke, what tender words he used! 

So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, 

They melted as they fell.”

--John Dryden

Feast of the Holy Family

Giving

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

--Robert Louis Stevenson