It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

-- Marcus T. Cicero

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

-- Ayn Rand

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

-- Hesiod

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

-- Boris Pasternak

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

-- Ayn Rand

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

-- Barbara Jordan

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

-- Robert Southey