"Every violation of truth is not only..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Intemperance is the only vulgarity.”

“When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.”

“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.”

“I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”

“Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember”

“When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.”

“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”

“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”