Character and Conduct – 13 August – Friendship

TREAT your friends for what you know them to be.   Regard no surfaces.   Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

THOREAU

WHAT makes us so changeable in our friendships, is our difficulty to discern the qualities of the soul, and the ease with which we detect those of the intellect.

JUDGE not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

RABBI HILLEL

CRITICISM often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

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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.