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

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

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

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.