write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.