Do Not Desire Crosses, Unless You Have

The Highest Degree Of Meekness Consists In Seeing, Serving, Honoring, And Treating Amiably, On Occasion, Those Who Are Not To Our Taste, And Who Show Themselves Unfriendly, Ungrateful, And Troublesome To Us.

The Elephant, Not Only The Largest But The Most Intelligent Of Animals, Provides Us With An Excellent Example. It Is Faithful And Tenderly Loving To The Female Of Its Choice, Mating Only Every Third Year And Then For No More Than Five Days, And So Secretly As Never To Be Seen, Until, On The Sixth Day, It Appears And Goes At Once To Wash Its Whole Body In The River, Unwilling To Return To The Herd Until Thus Purified. Such Good And Modest Habits Are An Example To Husband And Wife.

Half An Hour's Meditation Each Day Is Essential, Except When You Are Busy. Then A Full Hour Is Needed.

Is It Not A Great Temptation To Be So Valiant In Imagination And So Cowardly In Execution?

A Judicious Silence Is Always Better Than Truth Spoken Without Charity.