We forget that while we are not required to judge our neighbours, we are required to judge ourselves.

THERE is no commoner danger than that of accepting the code of the society in which you live as the rule of right.

He who is always enquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him.

HUMILITY is the hall-mark of wisdom.

Pride mars, blights, and withers whatever it touches.   It begets assumptions that are very belittling as well as hard to bear. 

SELF-LOVE is the greatest Flatterer in the World.

THE power men possess to annoy me I give them.

IF any one tells you such a one has spoken ill of you, do not refute them in that particular;  but answer, had he known all my vices, he had not spoken only of that one.

IT is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Character and Conduct – 5 June – Faults TOO many take the ready course to deceive themselves;  for they look with both eyes on the failings and defects of others, and scarcely give their good qualities half an eye:  on the contrary, in themselves they study to the full their own advantages, while their weaknesses and defects… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 5 June – Faults