On Example, Consistency, Genuineness, Honesty and Influence

    
    
         
   A good example is the best sermon. 


   
   Conduct has the loudest tongue. 
   
   
   
   The parent's life is the child's copy-book. 



   As the old birds sing, the young ones twitter. 
   
   
   
   Will not a man listen?  Be silent;  and prove thy maxim by 
   example. 



   We live in an age that hath more need of good examples than 
   precepts. 
   
   
   
   
   Never fear, thou losest not the hold, though thy mouth doth not 
   render a reason. 
                                                       M. Tupper 
   
   
   
   
   An indulgent mother maketh a sluttish daughter. 




   When the dam leaps over, the kid follows. 




   Be sparing of advice by words, but teach thy lesson by example. 

                                                     M. Tupper 
   
   
   
   
   Precepts may lead --- but examples draw. 
   
   
   
   
   People look at my six days in the week, to see what I mean on 
   the seventh. 




   Who goes himself is in earnest;  who sends is indifferent. 
   
   

   
   
   A good gaper makes two gapers. 

   
   

   
   When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior. 
   
   
   
   

   It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker. 
   
   

   
   
   The consciousness that some are hearing cometh as a care; The 
   sense that some are watching near bindeth thee to caution. 





   The rotten apple injures his neighbor. 
   
   
   
   
   A picture hath ruined souls, or raised them to commerce with 
   the skies. 
   
   
   
   
   Mind hath its influence on mind;  and no man is free but when 
   alone. 
   
   
   
   
   Be the same thing that ye would be called. 
   
   
   
   
   Who don't keep faith with God won't keep it with man. 

   
   
   
   The will steadfast to the truth --- this is fidelity. 




   An honest man's the noblest work of God. 

   
   
   
   Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft. 
   
   
   
   
   Honesty is exact to a penny.