Character and Conduct – 29 December – The Love and Grace and Tenderness of Life

NEITHER toil, nor the end of toil in oneself or in the world, is all vanity, in spite of the preacher;  but there is enough vanity in both to make one sit loose to them.   What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and grace and tenderness of it;  not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge – grand as knowledge is – but just the laughter of little children and the friendship of friends, the cosy talk by the fireside, the sight of flowers and the sound of music. 

J.R. GREEN

LIFE is sweet, brother…   There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things;  sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet things;  there’s likewise the wind on the heath.    Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

BORROW

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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 is that readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.