Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

Candid, and generous, and just, Boys care but little whom they trust, An error soon corrected- For who but learns in riper years That man, when smoothest he ap…

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty ou…