To attempt and not succeed is to give us, bound hand and foot, to the guillotine.

Every day his power must decline.

Procrastination is our best ally--" While yet speaking, and while yet producing the effect of water on the fire, it was announced that a stranger demanded to see him instantly on business that brooked no delay.
"I am not at leisure," said the orator, impatiently.

The servant placed a note on the table.

Tallien opened it, and found these words in pencil, "From the prison of Teresa de Fontenai." He turned pale, started up, and hastened to the anteroom, where he beheld a face entirely strange to him.
"Hope of France!" said the visitor to him, and the very sound of his voice went straight to the heart,--"your servant is arrested in the streets.