Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing

Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance

If bread be what you seek O little mice, Go to some other shelf is my advice But if upon my books you whet a tooth, Your revel you shall rue in bitter truth

Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, Freedom. Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had such a mastery of legal principles Why, they had so few books

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth