The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

Truth is our element.

The life of truth is cold.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]