It is astonishing what force purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces but which all experience refutes.