"The truth. They make it consist of nothing they cannot prove. The greatest happiness they find in it is being able to put forth incontestable assertions. This is what they like, and they consider it a sign of prestige, a prerogative, a power, a dignity, etc., a liberation from error."

"If I had known that the figures for Russian tank strength which you gave in your book were in fact the true…"

"It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies — who were in truth the more numerous and activ…"

"Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity."

"In the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most s…"

"The word of God is God, and therefore has to be revealed to you by God. When God’s Holy Spirit reveals to y…"

"It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts."