“Then I said, “I covet truth;Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat;I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“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.”

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

“So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.”

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”