“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.