We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.