April 4

“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. Character teaches over our head.”

EMERSON

No action, whether foul or fair,
Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere
A record, written by fingers ghostly
As a blessing, or a curse, and mostly
In the greater weakness or greater strength
Of the acts which follow it, till at length
The wrongs of ages are redressed,
And the justice of God made manifest.”

LONGFELLOW

“For every good deed of ours, the world will be better always. And, perhaps, no day does a man walk down a street cheerfully and like a child of God, without some passengers being brightened by his face, and, unknowingly to himself, catching from its look a something of religion.”