He who takes wages for work must perform it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

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

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.