*smile* I just thought about the same topic yesterday evening when I read the ntroduction to Dickens' Christmas Stories. (Yes, I know it's the wrong season for Christmas stories, but I felt like reading them...)

Anyway, in the introduction there's a quote by Robert Louis Stevenson who's all enthusiastic about Dickens' Christmas tales. What he writes reminded me about comments on the internet which made me smile.

The quote: "so good - and I feel so good after them - I shall do good and lose no time - I want to go out and comfort someone... Oh, what a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these and just filled people's hearts with pity."