If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

Peace is always beautiful.