Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington IrvingA kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington IrvingThe Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.
Washington IrvingThere is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.
Washington Irving