“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself”
Abraham Lincoln
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
Oscar Wilde
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
“A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain”
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
“Insist on yourself; Never imitate... Every Great man is unique.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
