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.

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.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

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.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

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.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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

False leaders create followers by lying.

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.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.