(Don't care about this moral. Get something better out of it before to-morrow. It will do for “material.”)
Fourth.—We are born for the sake of one another.
Moral.—Find out for whom you were born, and stick to him, or her.
(Rather a frisky moral this. More for Mondays than Sundays, perhaps. Marcus Aurelius was a great man. One begins to appreciate the greatness of a maxim-maker or aphorist, when you try to do something in that line yourself.)
Fifth.—You yourself are often like those who offend you.
Moral.—When you detect the resemblance to yourself in others, treat them as you deserve to be treated. This may lead to difficulties.
(Something suggested here, by this last word.)
Sixth.—Difficulties were made to be surmounted.
Moral.—Go up Mount Ararat and down the other side.
Seventhly.—The sum of social Christianity: Love your neighbour, and hate your relations.