Precept & Practice – MARCH 16 – Tact

Tact is not merely shown in saying the right thing at the right time, and to the right people.   It is shown quite as much in the many things left unsaid, and apparently unnoticed.

Lecky

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

Bove

You needn’t cheer in this world when you don’t like the show, but silence is louder than a hiss.

G. H. Lorimer (Old Gorgon Graham’s Letters to his Son)

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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