But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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.
Charles Dickens"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
Charles DickensProbably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
Charles DickensShe was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
Charles DickensCome, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
Charles DickensTo be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
Charles Dickens