He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.

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

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

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

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

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

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

No man should be angry with what is true.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

False leaders create followers by lying.