January Fourth.

A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

January Fifth.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.

January Sixth.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.

January Seventh.

Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.

January Ninth.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

January Tenth.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it spells the same thing.

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January Eleventh.

He who has a thousand friends has not a

friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

January Twelfth.

If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those

to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.

January Thirteenth.

It has been said that " common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with what they are." And why? Because a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words, by its very looks and manners, the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture, or of pictures, addresses.

January Fourteenth.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore cf an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

January Fifteenth.

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

January Sixteenth.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.

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January Seventeenth.

He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things.