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.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.