Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.
If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible. . . At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.