To Love Our Neighbor In Charity Is

The Elephant, Not Only The Largest But The Most Intelligent Of Animals, Provides Us With An Excellent Example. It Is Faithful And Tenderly Loving To The Female Of Its Choice, Mating Only Every Third Year And Then For No More Than Five Days, And So Secretly As Never To Be Seen, Until, On The Sixth Day, It Appears And Goes At Once To Wash Its Whole Body In The River, Unwilling To Return To The Herd Until Thus Purified. Such Good And Modest Habits Are An Example To Husband And Wife.

Chastity Is The Lily Of Virtues, And Makes Men Almost Equal To Angels. Everything Is Beautiful In Accordance With Its Purity. Now The Purity Of Man Is Chastity, Which Is Called Honesty, And The Observance Of It, Honor And Also Integrity; And Its Contrary Is Called Corruption; In Short, It Has This Peculiar Excellence Above The Other Virtues, That It Preserves Both Soul And Body Fair And Unspotted.

Big Fires Flare Up In A Wind, But Little Ones Are Blown Out Unless They Are Carried In Under Cover.

Do Everything Calmly And Peacefully. Do As Much As You Can As Well As You Can. Strive To See God In All Things Without Exception, And Consent To His Will Joyously. Do Everything For God, Uniting Yourself To Him In Word And Deed. Walk Very Simply With The Cross Of The Lord And Be At Peace With Yourself.

Consider The Pains Which Martyrs Have Endured, And Think How Even Now Many People Are Bearing Afflictions Beyond All Measure Greater Than Yours, And Say, "of A Truth My Trouble Is Comfort, My Torments Are But Roses As Compared To Those Whose Life Is A Continual Death, Without Solace, Or Aid Or Consolation, Borne Down With A Weight Of Grief Tenfold Greater Than Mine."