Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. [ Wordsworth, to a child ]

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot. [ Mme. de Stael ]

He that protects an ill man may live to repent of it. [ Proverb ]

True modesty protects a woman better than her garments.

Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. [ Byron ]

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]