Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and theres no way Id do anything to undermine that belief. – Carol Ann Duffy

Chum was a British boys weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. – A. E. van Vogt