I Have Always Paid Attention To The

Habit Is The Most Imperious Of All Masters.

And What Does Really Matter? That Is Easy: Thinking And Doing, Doing And Thinking--and These Are The Sum Of All Wisdom. . . . Both Must Move Ever Onward In Life, To And Fro, Like Breathing In And Breathing Out.

Things Which Matter Most Must Never Be At The Mercy Of Things Which Matter Least.

Nothing Will Change The Fact That I Cannot Produce The Least Thing Without Absolute Solitude.

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.