The well of true wit is truth itself.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Speech is the small change of silence.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Caricature is rough truth.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Bring the army of the faithful through.

Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false within.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

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.