The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.