Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Might was the measure of right.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

Most style is not honest enough.