“A new heart for a New Year, always!”

“We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.”

“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.”

“I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old.”

“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

“So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...”