The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
We have to make the choice-every single day-to exemplify the truth, the respect, and the grace that we wish for this world.
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