Candour’s the cement of friendship. - Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Thou hast heard of her incomparable charms, and verily the ear may love before the eye.
"It may," admitted Horace, "but neither of my ears is the least in love at present."

These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.

Wisely was it written: 'Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.'