If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!


Lectures on Art, and Poems (ed. 1850)

Washington Allston Quotes

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the ...

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the ...

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the ...

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the ...