We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain
a few grains of chaff; on the contrary, we may sometimes profitably
receive a bushel of chaff for the few grains of truth it may
contain.--_Dean Stanley._
The first great work is that yourself may to yourself be
true.--_Roscommon._
In troubled water you can scarce see your face, or see it very little,
till the water be quiet and stand still: so in troubled times you can
see little truth; when times are quiet and settled, then truth
appears.--_Selden._
Men are as cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.--_La
Fontaine._
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it.
The evil is only that men will not seek it. Do you go home and search
for it.--_Mencius._
Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes only by practice; it is
less a matter of will than of habit; and I doubt if any occasion can be
trivial which permits the practice and formation of such a
habit.--_Ruskin._
Forgetting that the only eternal part for man to act is man, and that
the only immutable greatness is truth.--_Lamartine._
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough
in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving
natures.--_Joubert._