The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should read more

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my read more

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can read more

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and read more

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book read more

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.