April 7

“There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can’t isolate yourself and say that the evil which is in you shall not spread. Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“A great act does not perish with the life of him who performed it, but lives and grows up into like acts in those who survive the doer thereof and cherish his memory.”

SMILES

“The doors of your soul are open on others, and theirs on you. . . . Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, - an influence, too, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”

HORACE BUSHNELL