Character and Conduct – 27 July – Manners

MANNERS impress as they indicate real power.   A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression, which everybody reads.   And you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.   Nature forever puts a premium on reality.

EMERSON

A MAN’S own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.

CHESTERFIELD

MANNERS are the ornament of action, and there is a way of speaking a kind word, or of doing a kind thing, which greatly enhances its value.   What seems to be done with a grudge, or as an act of condescension, is scarcely accepted as a favour.

S. SMILES

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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.