The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. – Robert E. Lee
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. – Miguel de Cervantes
An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011
