"I have ever thought, Nature doth nothing so great for great men, As when she's pleas'd to make them lords of truth. Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end."

"It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth."

"The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell (Strange Mansion!) in the bottom of a well: Questions are then the Windlass and the rope That pull the grave old Gentlewoman up."

"Truths that wake To perish never."

"Truth is the same in all persuasions."

"Truth and falsehood, it has been well said, are not always opposed to each other like black and white, but oftentimes, and by design, are made to resemble each other so as to be hardly distinguishable; just as the counterfeit thing is counterfeit because it resembles the genuine thing."

"There are various kinds of untruth. There is an absolute untruth, an untruth in itself, that no addition or qualification can make true: as, if a man says a thing he saw was black, when it was white, as he remembers and knows. So, as to knowing the truth. A man may know it, and yet it may not be present in his mind at the moment of speaking; or, if the fact is present to his mind, it may not occur to him to be of any use to mention it. For example, suppose a man was asked whether a writing was necessary in a contract for the making and purchase of goods, he might well say "Yes," without adding that payment on receipt of the goods, or part, would suffice. He might well think that the question he was asked was whether a contract for goods to be made required a writing like a contract for goods in existence. If he was writing on the subject, he would, of course, state the exception or qualification."

"The interests of truth and justice must be allowed to prevail."

"Truth is the thing that we are enquiring after; and this is the thing we would have prevail, and I hope shall in all cases."

"Ingenuity is one thing, and simple testimony another, and plain truth, I take it, needs no flowers of speech."

"We live in an age, when truth passes for nothing in the world, and swearing and foreswearing is taken for a thing of course. Had his zeal been half so much for truth as it was for falsehood, it had been a commendable zeal."

"Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged."

"God forbid the truth should be concealed any way."

"Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi: Truth fears nothing but concealment."

"Fiction is never admitted where truth may work."

"Ay, ay, let truth come out, in God's name."

"Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech."

"It seems to have been supposed, at one time, that saying, 'Tell the truth' meant, in effect, 'Tell a lie.'"

"Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely — may be pursued too keenly — may cost too much."

"We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation."

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

"How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!"

"Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this."

"We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them."

"One of the sublimest things in this world is plain truth."

"The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not."

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose."

"The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love."

"Pray over every truth ; for though the renewed heart is not " desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment."

"Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their divineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness."

"Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order."

"Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion."

"The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom."

"Truth will ever be unpalatable to those who are determined not to relinquish error."

"I am using the truth, Master Wayne. Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day. I'm sorry."

"Truth needs no flowers of speech."

"He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise."

"There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly — it is incredible to other men."

"In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him."

"It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action — not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood."