Christmas Time

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitible time, the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creature bound on other journeys.----Charles Dickens