"Unto him who works, and feels he works, This same grand year is ever at the doors." TENNYSON. Pleasure in Work FEBRUARY 14 "Joy or delight in what we are doing is not a mere luxury; it is a means, a help for the more perfect doing of our work. Indeed, it may be truly said that no man does any work perfectly who does not enjoy his work. Joy in one's work is the consummate tool without which the work may be done indeed, but without which the work will always be done slowly, clumsily, and without its finest perfectness. Men who do their work without enjoying it are like men carving statues with hatchets. The statue gets carved perhaps, and is a monument for ever of the dogged perseverance of the artist; but there is a perpetual waste of toil, and there is no fine result in the end." PHILLIPS BROOKS. "Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous,--a spirit all sunshine; graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright." CARLYLE. "Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small." BROWNING. Duty FEBRUARY 15 "In Life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee 'I find thee worthy; do this thing for me'?" LOWELL. "Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers." _Amiel's Journal._ "I'll bind myself to that which, once being right, Will not be less right when I shrink from it." KINGSLEY. "There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving." WHITTIER. Duty FEBRUARY 16 "A duty is no sooner divined than from that very moment it becomes binding upon us." _Amiel's Journal._ "Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it." EMERSON. "The toppling crags of duty scaled Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God Himself is moon and sun." TENNYSON. The Iron Chains of Duty FEBRUARY 17