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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Candour

Always, when thou changest thy opinion or course,… profess it plainly,… and do not think to steal it.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Alexander Pope.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope: Thoughts on Various Subjects.