It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth

If I want to read fiction, I’ll buy a newspaper

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside