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- Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. — Khalil Gibran
- To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. — Voltaire
- Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. — H. L. Mencken
- 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