Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest-that would be like a blind man willing to see.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

There is no well-defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like: it is terrifying.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.