Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.—Gray.
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.—Cowper.
Blunt truths make more mischief than nice falsehoods do.—Pope.
Truth has rough flavors if we bite through.—George Eliot.
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.—Goethe.
All truths are not to be repeated, still it is well to hear them.—Mme. du Deffaud.
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always avenges itself.—Auerbach.
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.—Charles Sumner.
Verity is nudity.—Alfred de Musset.
Twilight.—Parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away, the last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is gray.—Byron.