We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to probability, and truth ain't.