F. Washington Jarvis (1939–2018) was an Episcopalian priest who for 30 years served as the headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continued existence in North America. Jarvis frequently delivered inspirational talks to the boys in his school, and 40 of these addresses were collected in “With Love and Prayers: A Headmaster Speaks to the Next Generation.” In one of these, “The Spiritual Dimension,” Jarvis closes with these thoughts: “I saw a snippet on public television in July about a summer camp that had these words written over its entrance—words that sum up my hopes and prayers for all of you, words that sum up everything I’ve been trying to say. The words are these: ‘God first, others second, myself last.’ That is the formula for the best of lives.” God first, others second, myself last. That seems a worthy and wise hierarchy of obligations, but we …