“He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.”

“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”

“Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself. ”

“A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.”

“What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.”

“What looks like a man is only a representation of a man who does what the organization requires. He (or it) does not run the machine; he tends it.”

“Someone will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong — acting the part of a good man or a bad. …For wherever a man's place is, whether the place he has chosen or that where he has been placed by a commander. there he ought to remain in the hour of danger; he should not think of death or of anything, but of disgrace.”

“The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.”

“No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.”

“No man has need of religion who is self-righteous, who is all he wants to be and all he ought to be.”