So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.