We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.