March Twenty-Third
Pierre Savant La Place born 1749.
Schuyler Colfax born 1823.
Richard A. Proctor born 1837.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life.... Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day; on the morrow how much clearer are thy purposes and duties!
—Thomas Carlyle.
Deliberate much before you say and do anything; for it will not be in your power to recall what is said or done.
—Epictetus.
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth;
Keep the door of my lips.
—Psalm 141. 3.
My Lord, make me a lover of the truth. Make me careful of my thoughts, and the words I would speak, that I may not think selfishly and speak cruelly, but keep myself holy unto thee. Amen.