“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”

Walden (1854)

Gabrina tenne sempre gli occhi bassi,
Perché non ben risposta al vero dassi.
Canto XXI, stanza 69 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

“Life without prejudice,” p. 5.
Life Without Prejudice (1965)

As quoted in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum http://www.shsu.edu/~smm_www/History/quotes.shtml.

The Rights of Conscience Inalienable (1791)
Context: Truth disdains the aid of the law for its defence–it will stand upon its own merit. … It is error, and error alone, that needs human support; and whenever men fly to the law or sword to protect their system of religion, and force it upon others, it is evident that they have something in their system that will not bear the light, and stand upon the basis of truth. (p. 185)

Amphitryon, Act II, scene 2.
Amphitryon

Part II : Opinions Relating to the Doctrine of Atonement, § I : That Christ did not die to make satisfaction for the sins of men.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
Context: Whenever our Lord speaks of the object of his mission and death, as he often does, it is either in a more general way, as for the salvation of the world, to do the will of God, to fulfil the scripture prophecies … or more particularly, to give the fullest proof of his mission by his resurrection from the dead, and an assurance of a similar resurrection of all his followers. He also compares his being raised upon the cross to the elevation of the serpent in the wilderness, and to seed buried in the ground, as necessary to its future increase. But all these representations are quite foreign to anything in the doctrine of atonement.

Introduction to Palmer's translation of Virgil's Eclogues

I Won't Back Down
Lyrics, Full Moon Fever (1989)