- 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 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… And so as Tiny Tim said: “A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us, every one.