April 14

“It is very good for strength
To know that someone needs you to be strong.”

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

“I know not a more serious thing than the responsibility incurred by all human affection. Only think of this: whoever loves you is growing like you. Neither he nor you can hinder it, save at the cost of alienation. Oh! If you are grateful but for one creature’s love, rise to the height of so pure a blessing, drag them not down by the very embrace with which they cling to you, but through their gentleness secure their consecration.”

“As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.”

LOWELL

“Good, the more

Communicated, more abundant grows.”

MILTON