Moral-education article: Honesty is the best policy.
What does "honesty is the best policy" mean:
You should always tell the truth, even when it seems as if it would be useful to tell a lie.
Well-known honesty stories:
It was the favorite motto of America's first President:
"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
- George Washington
The moral of Aesop's fable "Mercury and the Woodcutter," a story about two woodcutters - one is honest, the other is not.
