who surround us, have perhaps no merit at all in the eyes of our Lord; and we must own that, in many circumstances, we should blush indeed if it were given to our brother to probe the depths of our hearts deeply enough to discover the hidden motive of such and such an action, which he appreciates because he only sees the exterior. Self-knowledge is to form a just estimate of the different qualities we find in ourselves; for humility is not the negation of the good which we may discover; it consists,