“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
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.