I once asked a deaf and dumb boy, "What is truth?" He replied by
thrusting his finger forward in a straight line. I then asked him "What
is falsehood?" when he made a zigzag with his finger. Try to remember
this; let whoever will, take a zigzag path,--go you on in your course
as straight as an arrow to its mark, and shrink from falsehood, as you
would from a viper.
--_Barnaby._
1960
Truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Vice is a monster of such hideous mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen.
--_Pope._
1961
The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.
--_Ben Jonson._
1962
Not to believe the truth, is of all ills the worst.
1963