Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
~ Carol Nelson

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~ Roy L. Smith

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~ Mary Ellen Chase

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

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
~ W.J. Cameron

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~ Burton Hillis

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
~ Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.
~ W.J. Cameron

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
~ Walter Scott