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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. — Herman Melville
- Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville
- Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? — Herman Melville