When your mind is tranquil and without anger, build up in your soul a good supply of meekness and mildness by speaking and acting in the mildest way you can. Remind yourself that the spouse in the Canticle of Canticles not only had honey on her lips and at the end of her tongue [cf Sg 4:11] but also under her tongue; that is, within her breast. There she had not only honey but milk as well. So we must deal kindly with our neighbor by our speech and with our entire being. Polite conversation is not enough; we must practice a gentle charity with members of our own family and with neighbors. Those who appear in public as angels but are devils in their own homes fall greatly in this regard.
(INT. Part III, Ch. 8; O. III, p. 165)
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