It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and read more

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

But above all things truth is victor.

But above all things truth is victor.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.