quotable notes | spirit of the season
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
~ Mary Ellen Chase
quotable notes | courtesy
“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases those who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.” ~Erastus Wiman, 1834-1904, Journalist and Businessman