May 24

“I do not know that there is anything, except it be humility, which is so valuable as an incident of education as accuracy. And accuracy can be taught. Direct lies told to the world are as dust in the balance when weighed against the falsehoods of inaccuracy. These are the fatal things, and they are all-pervading. I scarcely care what is taught to the young if it will but implant in them the habit of accuracy.”

ARTHUR HELPS

“Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“Lie not; but let thy heart be true to God.
Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both;
Cowards tell lies and those that fear the rod;
The stormie-working soul spits lies and froth.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie;
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

GEORGE HERBERT