Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

No man should be angry with what is true.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.