Integrity rests its case.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Sleep that masters all.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

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.

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

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

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.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

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

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

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.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.