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

                    As fits the holy Christmas birth,
                             Be this, good friends, our carol still ...
                    Be peace on earth, be peace on earth,
                            To men of gentle will.
                                                      - William Makepeace Thackeray
 
 

                     For somehow, not only at Christmas,
                         but all the long year through,
                    The joy that you give to others
                         is the joy that comes back to you.
                                                      - John Greenleaf Whittier
 
 

                       I heard the bells on Christmas Day
                       Their old, familiar carols play,
                            and wild and sweet
                       The words repeat
                       Of peace on earth, good will to men!
                                                       - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
 

                    "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim.
                                                       - Charles Dickens