George Washington’s Rules of Civility Traced to Their Sources and Restored
Moncure D. Conway
Number of quotes: 3
Book ID: 95 Page: 19
Section: 1A
The failure of what was called Religion to promote moral culture is now explicable: its scheme of terror and hope appealed to and powerfully stimulated selfishness, and was also fundamentally anti-social, cultivating alienation of all who did not hold certain dogmas. The terrors and hopes having faded away, the selfishness they developed remains, and is only unchained by the decay of superstition.
Quote ID: 2450
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 95 Page: 20
Section: 4B
The world does not depend on a man’s inner but on his outer life. Emerson once scandalised some of his admirers by saying that he preferred a person who did not respect the truth to an unpresentable person. But, no doubt, he would regard the presentable person as possessing virtues of equal importance. The nurture of “civility and decent behavior in company and conversation,” is not secondary, but primary, importance.
Quote ID: 2451
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 95 Page: 75
Section: 1A
Conscience to an evil man is a never dying worm, but unto a good man it’s a perpetual feast.
Quote ID: 2452
Time Periods: 7
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