Every Vocation Becomes More Agreeable

Examine From Time To Time What Are The Dominant Passions Of Your Soul, And Having Ascertained This, Mold Your Life, So That In Thought, Word, And Deed You May As Far As Possible Counteract Them.

Anxiety Is The Greatest Evil That Can Befall A Soul, Except Sin. God Commands You To Pray, But He Forbids You To Worry.

One Single Act Done With Aridity Of Spirit Is Worth More Than Many Done With Feelings Of Devotion.

Make Sickness Itself A Prayer.

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.