Quotation of the Week: Dickens on Christmas

In addition to his many fine novels, I think that Charles Dickens writes with incredible insight about Christmas -- and not just in his famous book A Christmas Carol. When I jotted down Christmas quotations earlier this month, I ran across a longer quote from Dickens that I knew I would be sharing here this Christmastide. Longer than most of the quotations I copy into my journal and post here, it is SO worth it, and I hope that you think so, too. From my Quotations Journal:

"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

Wishing you all a joyous Fifth Day of Christmas! (And a blessed remembrance of Saint Thomas a Becket, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170)