We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Who lies for you will lie against you.