The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.