Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.