Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.