You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th’ eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world’s famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

A vague sense of Nature’s Unity, blended with a dim perception of an all-pervading Spiritual Essence, has been remarked among the earliest manifestations of the Human Mind. Everywhere it was the dim remembrance, uncertain and indefinite, of the original truth taught by God to the first men.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Get but the truth once uttered, and ’tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Lunatics, drunkards and children sometimes give out the truth unconsciously, as if inspired by heaven.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.