"There is a common saying about taking the conceit out of a man, and I must acknowledge that you can do this as effectually as any one I ever knew." "When the truth comes to us," said the old gentleman, smiling in return, "it possesses the quality of a mirror, and shows us something of our real state.

If we were more earnest to know the truth, so far as it applied to ourselves, we would be wiser, and, it is to be hoped, better.

Truth is light, and when it comes to us it reveals our true relation to the world.

It gives the ability to define our exact position, and to know surely whether we are in the right or the wrong way.

How beautifully has it been called a lamp to our path! And truth possesses another quality--that of water.