Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth thereof.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.