“A man or a woman never surfeits of too much honesty!”

“To appear an honest person, in one word you must be one. Honesty is the fine jewel, but much out of fashion. Honesty in public life is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Let God inspire you, make you want to begin to be your best self: not just to be proved right, but to be willing to be proved wrong when you are; to learn to laugh when someone trips you up. There is a great holy hilarity that we haven’t even touched in store for the saints of God.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”