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 

Best day

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its own beauty

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again”

--Ralph Waldo Emerson