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Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A. R. Calhoun, published in 1895.

The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of the individual, constituting a rank in itself and an estate in the general goodwill.

Character dignifies every station and exalts every position in society.

It exercises a greater power than wealth and secures all honor without the jealousies

of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells, for it is the result of proven honor,

rectitude, inconsistency, qualities which perhaps, more than any other,

command the general confidence and respect of one's fellow citizens.

Character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. People of

character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well-governed state. They

are its best mode of power, for it is moral qualities in the main which rule the world. Even in war, Napoleon said,

the moral is to the physical, as tend a one. The strength, the industry, and the civilization

of nations all depend upon individual character, and the very foundation

of civil security rests upon it.

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