12 hours early but:

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasent: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would ot be so welcome.
Anna Bradstreet

He who marvels at the beauty if the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph. and the heavens wear a look of more exalted simplicity.
John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walker

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is....No longer the canvas and pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walker

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter is air is full of it.
John Burroughs, "Winter Sunshine