"I have been in situations where I could not tell the truth without doing harm, and I have therefore told lies."

"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."

"I am a person who has always been very much in favor of the truth, and I have always been very much against falsehood."

"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."