April 5

Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. I will also praise Thee.—Ps. lxxi, 21, 22.

Great Minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing Good, Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors Are barren in return.

ROWE.

The truly Generous is the truly wise, And he who loves not others, lives unblest.

HORNE.

There is as much Greatness of Mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a Requital out of season, than be wanting in it.

SENECA.

He only is Great who has the Habits of Greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it."

LAVATER.

A Great Mind is above doing an unjust act, above giving way to Grief, above descending to Buffoonery; and it would be invulnerable, if Compassion did not prey upon its sensibility.

LA BRUYÈRE.