April 19th.  The true environment of the moral life is God.  Here conscience wakes.  Here kindles love.  Duty here becomes heroic; and that righteousness begins to live which alone is to live forever.  But if this Atmosphere is not, the dwarfed soul must perish for mere want of its native air.  And its Death is a strictly natural Death.  It is not an exceptional judgment upon Atheism.  In the same circumstances, in the same averted relation to their environment, the poet, the musician, the artist, would alike perish to poetry, to music, and to art.  Natural Law, p. 171.

April 20th.  Every environment is a cause.  Its effect upon me is exactly proportionate to my correspondence with it.  If I correspond with part of it, part of myself is influenced.  If I correspond with more, more of myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced.  If I correspond with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine.  Natural Law, Death, p. 171.

April 21st.  You can dwarf a soul just as you can dwarf a plant, by depriving it of a full environment.  Such a soul for a time may have a “name to live.”  Its character may betray no sign of atrophy.  But its very virtue somehow has the pallor of a flower that is grown in darkness, or as the herb which has never seen the sun, no fragrance breathes from its spirit.  Natural Law, p. 173.

April 22d.  I shall pass through this world but once.  Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.  Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 23d.  There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving . . . half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 24th.  No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to un-Christianize society than evil temper.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 25th.  How many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely character of those who profess to be inside!  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 26th.  A want of patience, a want of kindness, a want of generosity, a want of courtesy, a want of unselfishness, are all instantaneously symbolized in one flash of Temper.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 27th.  Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting something in—­a great Love, a new Spirit—­the Spirit of Christ.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 28th.  Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all.  This only can eradicate what is wrong, work a chemical change, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man.  Will-power does not change men.  Time does not change men.  Christ does.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

April 29th Guilelessness is the grace for suspicious people.  And the possession of it is the great secret of personal influence.  You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are people who believe in you.  In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative fellowship.  The Greatest Thing in the World.