Character and Conduct – 14 June – The Code of Society

FREEDOM is not the power to do what we like, but to be what we ought to be.

CHARLES GORE

THERE is no commoner danger than that of accepting the code of the society in which you live as the rule of right.

Bishop TEMPLE

STRIVE all your life to free men from the bondage of custom and self, the two great elements of the world that lieth in wickedness.

CHARLES KINGSLEY

WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.   This rule… is harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

EMERSON

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These quotes are from ‘Character and Conduct’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.

Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1905 as a follow up to her volume of Daily Readings for members of the Being and Doing Guild who asked for an additional volume

In her preface Whishaw writes:

‘This collection of noble thoughts expressed by men and women of past and present ages who have endeavoured to leave the world a little better than they found it.’

It is my hope in publishing them here readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.