authenticity Quotes

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.