It dulls ideals, palsies the aspiring faculty, stupefies the ambition, and causes deterioration all along the line.
The human mechanism is so constituted that whatever goes wrong in one part affects the whole structure.

There is a very intimate relation between the quality of the work and the quality of the character.

Did you ever notice the rapid decline in a young man's character when he began to slight his work, to shirk, to slip in rotten hours, rotten service?
If you should ask the inmates of our penitentiaries what had caused their ruin, many of them could trace the first signs of deterioration to shirking, clipping their hours, deceiving their employers--to indifferent, dishonest work.
We were made to be honest.

Honesty is our normal expression, and any departure from it demoralizes and taints the whole character.

Honesty means integrity in everything.