Precept & Practice – MARCH 15 – Harsh Councils

Whoever would do good in the world ought not to deal in censure.   We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Goethe

Harsh councils have no effect;  they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Helvetius

Don’t poke the fire until you have some coal ready to put on!   It’s too much like criticism.   It kills instead of helping.

W. M. Hunt

Praise is the salt that seasons right to man and whets his appetite for moral good.

Young

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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