I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.—­Paley.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.—­Horace Mann.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty.—­Mme. De STAEL.

            Truth is one;

And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity. 

          
                          —­Whittier.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.—­Tillotson.

The expression of truth is simplicity.—­Seneca.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.—­Demosthenes.

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.—­Whittier.

The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.—­Emerson.

Unhappiness.—­The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.—­Henry home.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.—­Cicero.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness?  It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.—­Goethe.

Vanity.—­All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself.  He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.—­Auerbach.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world.  Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.—­H.W.  Shaw.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.—­Pope.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.—­Addison.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.—­La Bruyere.

Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices—­the vices of affectation and common lying.—­Adam Smith.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.—­Shakespeare.