I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come
round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable 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
creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
