The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G. K. Chesterton

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.