Antes de amor, dinheiro, fama, me dê verdade.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not: and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices.

Citação do livro Walden de Henry David Thoreau inclusa no livro Into the Wild.