I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

There's no truth anymore.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.