The expression of truth is simplicity.—Seneca.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.—Demosthenes.
Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.—Whittier.
The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.—Emerson.
Unhappiness.—The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.—Henry Home.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.—Cicero.
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.—Goethe.
Vanity.—All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.—Auerbach.
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.—H.W. Shaw.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.—Pope.