Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It read more

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta read more

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.