Quotes by Charles A. Dana

“Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.”

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.”

“When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.”

“Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. Theyre never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.”

“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.”