Believe a boaster as you would a liar.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

No man should be angry with what is true.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.