The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
