Winter (n.) is a time in which warmth stands for all virtue.
Winter (n.) is a time in which we lead a more inward life, with hearts warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
Winter (n.) is a thing possessing a concentrated and nutty kernel, if one knows where to look for it.
Winter (n.) is a season whose natural purity reveals itself in those little virtues that survive in the bare fields, the tinkling woods, in the coldest and the bleakest places.
Winter (n.) is the time for study, and the colder it is the more studious we are.