We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
Whatever the truth is about the extent to which truth is respected in the future, it is going to depend partly on what we do. More important than making predictions is doing things which help bring about this respect.
