Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.