The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.