Veracity is the heart of morality.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.