TRUTH is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence.

EVERY violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

IT takes two to speak truth—one to speak and another to hear.

IT is no great advantage to have a lively wit if exactness be wanting.  The perfection of a clock does not consist in its going fast, but in its keeping good time.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in this world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Those who habitually sacrifice truth in small things will find it difficult to pay her the respect they should do in great things.

A LIE which is half a truth Is ever the blackest of lies.

It is a little or immature or uneducated mind which readily despises.

IT is my way when I observe any instance of folly, any queer or absurd illusion, straightway to look for something of the same type in myself,

Quickness to detect and expose the weakness and frailties of a fellow-man, harshness in condemning them, mercilessness in punishing them, are not the characteristics which experience would lead us to expect in a very high and noble nature…