April 22

“The nearer the soul approaches to the divine and eternal source of love, the more fully do the obligations of sacred human love reveal themselves, and the more keen is the self-reproach for the neglect even of the smallest of these.”

From Catherine of Siena

“What a mystery it is that the happiness, the light of one’s life, should be so often in the gift of another’s will. Which of us is there that does not hold chords that may vibrate from the very hearts of those around us? Let us pray that with reverent and loving care we may use our power – half-unconscious as it is.”

Miss THACKERAY

“It is a mistake to suppose that relations must of course love each other because they are relations. Love must be cultivated, and can be increased by judicious culture, as wild-fruits may double their bearing under the hand of a gardener; and love can dwindle and die out by neglect, as choice flower-seeds planted in poor soil dwindle and grow single.”

Mrs H. B. STOWE