Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at a touch nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Tell the truth work hard and come to dinner on time.
Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.