To Love Our Neighbor In Charity Is

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.

A Quarrel Between Friends, When Made Up, Adds A New Tie To Friendship.

If We Say A Little It Is Easy To Add, But Having Said Too Much It Is Hard To Withdraw And Never Can It Be Done So Quickly As To Hinder The Harm Of Our Success.

If I Want Only Pure Water, What Does It Matter To Me Whether It Be Brought In A Vase Of Gold Or Of Glass? What Is It To Me Whether The Will Of God Be Presented To Me In Tribulation Or Consolation, Since I Desire And Seek Only The Divine Will?

While I Am Busy With Little Things, I Am Not Required To Do Greater Things.