If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
platitudes? yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
There are a thousand ways to wealth, but only one way to heaven
He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.
A useless life is an early death.
Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.
General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative.
The bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by god on the children of men. It has god for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. it is all pure
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
Colors are light's suffering and joy.