To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.[Also known as:]Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall, than that of defrauding government of its revenues.
The three great things of life are: GOOD HEALTH; WORK; and a PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. I may add, nay, must add, a fourth – SINCERITY. Without this, the other three are without avail; and with it you may cleave to greatness and sit among giants.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly – it is completely honest.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.[Nichts ist so schwer, als sich nicht betrügen.]
If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming.
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
