My friends were poor, but honest.

For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

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

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

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

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

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

False leaders create followers by lying.

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.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.