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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Candor gives wings to strength.

You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Now the best way in the world to seem to be anything is really to be what we would seem to be. Besides that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality as to have it, and if a man have it not it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labor to seem to have it is lost.

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.