January 17

“Prosperity, enjoyment, happiness, comfort, peace, whatever be the name by which we designate that state in which life is to our own selves pleasant and delightful, as long as they are sought or prized as things essential, so far they have a tendency to disennoble our nature, and are a sign that we are still in servitude to selfishness. Only when they lie outside us, as ornaments merely to be worn or laid aside as God pleases – only then may such things be possessed with impunity.”

FROUDE

“Oh! Righteous doom, that they who make
Pleasure their only end,
Ordering their whole life for its sake,
Miss that whereto they tend.

“While they who bid stern duty lead,
Content to follow, they,
Of duty only taking heed,
Find pleasure by the way.”

Archbishop TRENCH