In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Self defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason lawyers didnt make it.

To the true teacher times hour glass should still run gold dust.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one, it flies as well as creeps.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

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

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The truth is more important than the facts.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.