"Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I'll make death love me; for I will contendEven with his pestilent scythe.”

“What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.”

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”

“All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.”

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.”

“This is some fellow,Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affectA saucy roughness and constrains the garbQuite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!And they will take it so; if not he's plain.These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainnessHarbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,Than twenty silly, ducking observants,That stretch their duty nicely.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”