Truthfulness II: Day 184 readings from "Character And Conduct" - July 5

Readings for July 5 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.

"Truthfulness"

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n203/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_186

Authors featured today:

Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson

Book featured for July 5:

"Virginibus Puerisque" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Virginibus%20Puerisque
http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/virginibus-puerisque-1881/

Stevenson's title is from Horace's Odes 3.1.4: virginibus puerisque canto ("I sing to maids and youths").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes_(Horace)

Image:

Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_D._Maxham_-_Henry_David_Thoreau_-_Restored_-_greyscale_-_straightened.jpg