This, reader, is an honest book...I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

I’m a copper,” he said. “Just a plain ordinary copper. Reasonably honest. As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it’s out of style.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

a communicator who references a weakness early on is immediately seen as more honest

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

"But — pardon me if I seem inquisitive — are you not all rather — ahem! rather unusual?" asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest. "Not more so than yourself," answered the Scarecrow. "Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it."

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

I must admit, I was born at an early age.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

An honest man is always a child.

But it’s just that he is basically a very honest person. That makes him uncompromising sometimes.