Integrity disappears when you deny what is right.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

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

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.