Character and Conduct – 19 August – Friendship

FEW things are more fatal to friendship than the stiffness which cannot take a step towards acknowledgment.

Life of F. W. Crossley, RENDEL HARRIS

DO not discharge in haste the arrow which can never return:  it is easy to destroy happiness;  most difficult to restore it.

HERDER

DISCORD harder is to end than to begin.

SPENSER

THINK of this doctrine – that reasoning beings were created for one another’s sake;  that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

MARCUS AURELIUS

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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.