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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.