veracity quotes

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
US      philosopher      and      poet,      a      central      figure      of 1850  Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.

Any fool may writea most valuablebook bychance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

-Thomas Gray
  Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 Feb.