I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at...

Nov. 2, 1837. Truth strikes us from behind, and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.