Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
Naked Truth needs no shift.
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
The usefulest truths are the plainest.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.