1958

Dare to be true: Nothing can need a lie.

1959

TRUTH, CONTRASTED WITH FALSEHOOD.

I once asked a deaf and dumb boy, "What is truth?" He replied by
thrusting his finger forward in a straight line. I then asked him "What
is falsehood?" when he made a zigzag with his finger. Try to remember
this; let whoever will, take a zigzag path,--go you on in your course
as straight as an arrow to its mark, and shrink from falsehood, as you
would from a viper.

--_Barnaby._

1960

Truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Vice is a monster of such hideous mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen.

--_Pope._

1961

The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.

--_Ben Jonson._

1962

Not to believe the truth, is of all ills the worst.

1963

ILL-JUDGING.

A woman stopped a divine in the streets of the metropolis with this
salutation: "There is no truth in the land, sir! There is no truth in
the land." "Then you do not speak the truth, good woman," replied the
clergyman. "Oh, yes, I do," returned she, hastily. "Then there is truth
in the land," rejoined he, as quickly.

1964

I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

1965

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for
a time.

1966

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.

--_Locke._

1967

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light.

--_Menander._

1968

A thousand probabilities don't make one truth.

1969

TRUE TO TRUTH.

In an Eastern land a boy once set out from his mother's home for a
distant city, where he was to begin life and earn his livelihood. Before
parting with him, his mother gave him forty gold dinars, which, for
safety, she sewed inside his waistcoat. Her last counsel to him was, to
seek and to follow always the truth. On his way he had to cross part of
a desert, infested by robbers. One of these saw him and came galloping
up "Boy, what money have you got?"