"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. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."

-Charles Dickens ( Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol )

"T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

-Clement Clarke Moore ( From the poem 'A Visit from St. Nicolas' )