Be True to Yourself

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1864

Be True to Yourself

NEVER affect to be other than what you are. Learn to say, "I do not know," and I "cannot afford it," with most sonorous distinctness and emphasis. Men will then believe you, when you say, "I do know," and "I can afford it." Never be ashamed to pass for what you truly are, and who you are, and you are on solid ground. A man is already of consequence in the world, when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him—that when he says he knows a thing, it is so.