True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective

The worst fact is better than the best opinion.

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, "Put not your trust in princes." Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

Some true love turned and not a false turned true.