"If you wouldn't write it and sign..." - Quote by Earl Wilson

“Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.”

“The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.”

“There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.”

“The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.”

“The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.”

“His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.”

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

“Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.”

“Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.”