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.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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.

Sleep that masters all.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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