May 10

“Justice and Mercy, and that rigid self-control which kept him from speaking a hasty word or harbouring a mean suspicion, combined with a divine tenderness, were his governing principles in all his home relationships.”

From Life of C. Kingsley

“No fatigue was too great to make him forget the courtesy of less wearied moments; no business too engrossing to deprive him of his readiness to show kindness and sympathy. To school himself to this code of unfaltering high and noble living, was truly one of the great works of his life, for the fulfilment of which he subjected himself to a vigorous self-discipline.”

From Life of C. Kingsley

“The readiness which he showed to acknowledge a fault when once convinced of it, as well as to persevere in kindness even when he thought himself injured, succeeded in healing breaches which with a less forgiving or less honest temper would have been irreparable.”

From Life of Dr. Arnold

“Gather some profit to thy soul wheresoever thou art; so that if thou seest or hearest of any good examples, thou stir up thyself to the imitation thereof.”

THOMAS à KEMPIS