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“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
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.
The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
He lay, in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that, and for the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
