Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 23 – Sincerity

Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine Sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Carlyle

It is a gain to the world when people are content to be themselves, not clipped to the smooth pattern of the times, but simple, original, and unaffected in ways and words.

Mrs. Ritchie

I would have honesty and sincerity so incorporated with the constitution…..  that a man must be forced to find it out whether he would or no…..   A man of integrity, sincerity, and good-nature can never be concealed, for his character is wrought into his countenance.

Marcus Aurelius

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW