June 14

“What are the remedies against the absorption in personal life which belongs to women and to men, but also to women more than to men? The first is an education whose aims and extent are wider than at present. Such an education will encourage an habitual reference of life to higher motives than personal ones – even those which belong to the family. It would give and create in the young vivid interest in social questions in England and in foreign lands. It would give such a knowledge of government, and of the history of these countries as to enable the child in after life to enter into those movements which are likely to bear on the progress of mankind. It would give a clear idea of what we mean by mankind and its progress, and an interest in nations and their relations to each other, not only because we have a particular fancy for this or that nation, but because we long for the whole advance of men. It would give some knowledge and love of the great ideas and truths by whose working our mankind is regenerated.”

STOPFORD BROOKE

“The dangers which threaten us will never be averted until there is no single good man or woman in any sphere of life who does not realise the individual’s responsibility for the general condition, and who is not labouring in some direct, definite, self-denying way to rescue those who are perishing from the action of preventable evils.”

Archdeacon FARRAR

June 13

“Women were designed by their nature, elegance, and softness to endear domestic life by man, to make virtue lovely to children, to spread around them order and grace, and to give to society its highest polish.
“No attainments can be above beings whose end and aim it is to accomplish purposes at once so elegant and so salutary; every means should be used to invigorate by principle and culture such native excellence and grace.”

FÉNÉLON

“Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes to eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.”

EMERSON

“Light of any kind invariably throws light upon duty, and if we know anything we are sure to have thereby a clearer notion of right from wrong. The mere awakening of the understanding must awaken the conscience in some degree. You cannot gain more intellectual power without also gaining moral light. Just as the coming of the daylight shows you the beauty of nature at the same moment that it shows you the position surrounding, so, too, even the merest science must reveal in some slight degree the beauty of the will of God.”

Bishop TEMPLE

June 12

“Then learn as much as ever you can about all sorts of things, and so make this world, whilst you have to live in it, a perpetual source of interest and surprise and gratification. That will keep your mind from stagnating. And then get into the way of feeling for other people’s troubles, and doing what you can to help them away, and that will keep your heart from stagnating. You may live until you are five times sixty-five if you can, you will never find the world a bit too weary for you.”

“That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.”

Professor HUXLEY