Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

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

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

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

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

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

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.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.