We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: Why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in trouble.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Praise and criticism are both frauds.

'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who is not discovered.

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them.

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.