Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

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.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.