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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.