"All this vast industry is to afford a way of expressing one's goodwill to one's neighbors; to send out, not with too personal a meaning,...the assurance of renewed amity....No matter if we may secretly intend to renew the slight feud in the New Year, it is set aside for the moment, and, in theory, we are at one with the world, and at peace with all men."

-- Gleeson White, 1894