"Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny, when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid: then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds."

"I am looking for a human."

"You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion."

"We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe which is held by the vast majority of top American scientists, and probably the majority of the intelligencia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it: the intelligencia, unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs. To put it bluntly American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest."

"A honest man's word is as good as his bond."

"Honesty is the best policy."

"An honest blunder in the use of the language is not dishonest. [...] What is honest is not dishonest."

"If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement."

"The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," — it is greatness itself."

"The truthfulness which Jesus demands from his followers is the self-abnegation which does not hide sin. Nothing is then hidden, everything is brought forth to the light of day. In this question of truthfulness, what matters first and last is that a man’s whole being should be exposed, his whole evil laid bare in the sight of God. But sinful men do not like this sort of truthfulness."

"Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence."

"Magna eloquentia, sicut flamma, materia alitur, et motibus excitatur et urendo clarescit."

"Omnium artium domina [eloquentia]."

"Pour the full tide of eloquence along, Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong."

"It is with eloquence as with a flame; it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns."

"L'éloquence est une peinture de la pensée."

"In causa facili cuivis licet esse diserto."

"as that dishonest victory At Chæronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, [Isocrates, the celebrated orator of Greece.]"

"When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent."

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

"There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in his choice of words."

"Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maître, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place."

"Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected."

"L'éloquence est au sublime ce que le tout est à sa partie."

"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."

"Il embellit tout qu'il touche."

"Is enim est eloquens qui et humilia subtiliter, et magna graviter, et mediocria temperate potest dicere."

"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."

"Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one."

"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."

"The distrust which peasants and children display for glib persons has always preserved the notion of that injustice which made language the servant of gain."

"Denial of one's better self seals the lips or pollutes them. Fidelity to conviction opens them and truth blossoms in eloquence. ... He who aspires to master the art of expression must first of all consecrate himself completely to some great cause."

"But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence."

"But while listening Senates hang upon thy tongue, Devolving through the maze of eloquence A roll of periods, sweeter than her song."

"Discourse may want an animated "No" To brush the surface, and to make it flow; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease."

"The most eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo-Saxon contagion.""

"Action is eloquence."

"Every tongue that speaks But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence."

"That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse."

"A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."

"What do you believe was on the mind ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity? They judged that, indisputably, by the study of these disciplines not only was the tongue refined, but also the wildness and barbarity of people’s minds was amended."

"The shadow does not follow the body more closely than eloquence accompanies sagacity."

"You can see for what reason I commend the study of eloquence to you—because we can neither explain what we ourselves want, nor understand the surviving writing written by our ancestors, unless we have thoroughly studied a fixed rule for speaking. For my part, I do not see how there could be others who wish neither to explain what they think, nor to understand what is excellently said."

"Does the painter imitate the body correctly if he guides his brush without any method, and if his hand is moved at random and the lines are not drawn with art? In the same way you will not put the sentiment of your mind in front of the others’ eyes unless you use appropriate and distinct words, a fitting arrangement of words and the right order of sentences. For, just as we represent bodies by colours, we represent the sentiment of our mind by speech."

"But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice."

"I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance."

"Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards."

"Lie not, neither to thyself nor men nor God. Let mouth and heart be one — beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie."

"Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away."

"Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame."