"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."

"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."

"He who says that there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knave."

"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."

"Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe."

"This above all, —to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not."

"What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. Then is doomsday near."

"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Keep your eyes open if you deal with him. — Why, isn't he honest? — Thomasus? Sure he's honest. You just have to watch him, that's all."

"No man is bound to be rich or great, no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest."

"Yet Heav'n, that made me honest, made me more Than ever king did, when he made a lord."

"No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest."

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

"The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being."

"Ralph Waldo Emerson."

"For evy minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"Happiness is hope and humans naturally search for happiness in order to live every day with new hope new work and a new idea to live your life without trouble problems or psychological fatigue."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Beware what earth calls happiness; beware All joys, but joys that never can expire."

"So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man."

"Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master."

"Happiness is not perfected until it is shared."

"The soul's calm sunshine."

"Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God."

"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors."

"When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself — nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations."

"There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils 'grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks."

"It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness — temporal, spiritual, and eternal — consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases."

"Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element."