NOVEMBER 13 "It is self-centred people that are lonely--the richer the gift, the richer the giver. No one was ever the worse for giving." F. F. MONTRÉSOR. "Misanthropy is always traceable to some vicious experience or imperception--to some false reading in the lore of right and wrong, or it proceeds from positive defects in ourselves, from a departure from things simple and pure, whereby we forfeit happiness without losing the sense of the proper basis on which it rests; yet even thus perverted by the prejudices of the world, we still find a soothing pleasure in contemplating that happiness which belongs to simplicity and virtue." ACTON. "The largest and most comprehensive natures are generally the most cheerful, the most loving, the most hopeful, the most trustful. It is the wise man, of large vision, who is the quickest to discern the moral sunshine gleaming through the darkest cloud." Contentment NOVEMBER 14 "Contentment comes neither by culture nor by wishing; it is reconciliation with our lot, growing out of an inward superiority to our surroundings." J. K. MCLEAN. "If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will make misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you: you will be as wretched as you choose." CHARLES KINGSLEY. "Do not let your head run upon that which is none of your own, but pick out some of the best of your circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would wish for them, were they not in your possession." MARCUS AURELIUS. Contentment NOVEMBER 15 "Man seeks pleasure and self--great unforeseen results follow. Man seeks God and others--and there follows pleasure." ARNOLD TOYNBEE.