Character and Conduct – 26 July – Manners

MANNERS aim to facilitate life, to get rid of all impediments.   They aid our dealings and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all the obstructions on the road.

EMERSON

DEFECT in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions.

EMERSON

HE is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.

EMERSON

FAMILIAR acts are beautiful through love.

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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.