"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"Farewell then, verse, and love, and ev'ry toy, The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy; What right, what true, what fit we justly call, Let this be all my care—for this is all."

"Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd; Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermix'd."

"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."

"Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"

"Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam."

"Not a truth has to art or to science been given, But brows have ached for it, and souls toil'd and striven; And many have striven, and many have fail'd, And many died, slain by the truth they assail'd."

"Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not."

"Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex."

"Pericula veritati sæpe contigua."

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older."

"Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light."

"Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong."

"Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne."

"Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."

"Children and fooles speake true."

"But there is no veil like light—no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth."

"For oh, 'twas nuts to the Father of Lies, (As this wily fiend is named in the Bible) To find it settled by Laws so wise That the greater the truth, the worse the libel."

"When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies."

"Put golden padlocks on Truth's lips, be callous as ye will, From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill."

"Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la vérité."

"La vérité ne fait pas tant de bien dans le monde, que ses apparences y font de mal."

"There is no truth in him."

"Veritatem laborare nimis sæpe, aiunt, extingui nunquam."

"Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth."

"The defendant in this case has attacked certain beliefs, thought by the Christian world to be sacred. Yet, after all, nothing is sacred but the truth, and by truth I mean what a man sincerely and honestly believes."

"The best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine."

"The truth shall make you free."

"But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."

"Nuda veritas. (Nudaque veritas)."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a foot-ball, and it will be round and full at evening."

"Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum."

"One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed."

"Ridentem dicere verum, Quid vetat."

"When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire; Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar."

"Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm."

"Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view."

"Si je tenais toutes les vérités dans ma main, je me donnerais bien de garde de l'ouvrir aux hommes."

"Alius quidam veterum pœtarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriæ non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit."

"Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.""

"Vincer veris."

"Her terrible tale You can't assail, With truth it quite agrees; Her taste exact For faultless fact Amounts to a disease."

"But above all things truth beareth away the victory."

"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."

"The greater the truth the greater the libel."