What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.
While there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.