Never do wrong when people are looking.
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty.
As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;.
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.