When in doubt tell the truth.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
The bullsh*t is more interesting than the truth.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
I have such a high regard for the truth that I use it sparingly.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.