Ring out the old year 2012, ring in the new year 2013 -- Literary quotations for Dec. 31

from the Writer's Almanac (American Public Media, Garrison Keillor):

December 31 is New Year's Eve, a time for toasts and resolutions.
T.S. Eliot wrote in his poem "Little Gidding": "For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. [...] And to make an end is to make a beginning."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote: "Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."
Ben Franklin said, "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man."