Let others praise you. It is unbecoming to praise yourself.
Coolidge devotedly articulated Garman’s ethics forty years later:
“There is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting human relationships is in accordance with the law of service under which men are not so solicitous about what they shall get as they are about what they shall give. Yet people are entitled to the rewards of their industry. What they earn is theirs, no matter how small or how great. But the possession of property carries the obligation to use it in a larger service.”
“May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.” Dan Brown
When discussing when the written word in the bible comes into direct conflict with science, ie: Adam and Eve began the human race six thousand years ago, Galileo said,”I don’t believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect”–intended us to forgo their use.
Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make.
Old Delta Force saying:
All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.
from the novel “True Faith And Allegiance”, by Mark Greaney