Truth will ever be unpalatable to those who are determined not to relinquish error.
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another thing to wish to be on the side of truth.
The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not.
