Readings for July 29 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Influence" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n227/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_210 Authors featured today: Canon Malcolm MacColl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_MacColl Image: Canon Malcolm MacColl https://www.cornucopia.net/library/issues/48_MacColl_v2.jpg

Readings for October 2 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Programme of Christianity" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n291/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_275 Authors featured today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow George MacDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Image: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on the Isle of Wight, England in 1868 by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HenryWLongFellow1868.jpg

Readings for June 9 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Flattery" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n177/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_160 Authors featured today: François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Philip Wicksteed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wicksteed https://oll.libertyfund.org/person/philip-h-wicksteed https://mises.org/profile/philip-h-wicksteed Note: the author of the fourth reading is mispelled as "Wickstead" in the original text. The quote is from "Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen, Dealing Chiefly With His Metrical Works" by Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927). https://archive.org/details/fourlecturesonhe00wickiala/page/54/mode/2up?q=The+devil+has Image: Philip Wicksteed, 1906 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Wicksteed.png

Readings for January 14 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Ifs of Life" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_301 Authors featured today: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr. Lord Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Quoted today: Dugald Stewart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugald_Stewart David Hume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume "Over the Teacups" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2689 Image: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. c. 1879 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.jpg