Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. [ Young ]

Love on his lips and hatred in his heart:
His motto - constancy, his creed - to part. [ Byron ]

Great God, I had rather be
A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn. [ Wordsworth ]

The commandments have made as many good martyrs as the creed. [ Proverb ]

Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [ W. Pitt ]

The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. [ Chapin ]

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. [ C. C. Colton ]

I ever held this sentence of the poet as a canon of my creed, that whom God loveth not, they love not music. [ T. Morley ]

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. [ Froude ]

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. [ William Pitt ]