His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
~Charles Dickens

Some images from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for Art Thursday. One more quote: I have always thought of Christmas time as...the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one 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.

Scrooge and the Ghost of Marley
by Arthur Rackham

Scrooge and the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come
by Arthur Rackham

Jacob Marley and Ebenezer Scrooge
Illustration by Fred Barnard (1846-1896)