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.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

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

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.