December Twenty-first.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yet accredited; one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.

December Twenty-second.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup societies.

December Twenty-third.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the pres

ent.

December Twenty-fourth.

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange of good offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend.

December Twenty-fifth.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Our beatitude waits for the fulfilment of these two in one.

December Twenty-sixth.

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.

December Twenty-seventh.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

December Twenty-eighth.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

December Twenty-ninth.

Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly

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December Thirtieth.

Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands? Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

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December Thirty-first.

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again.

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