No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.

Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.

Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world…

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.