A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?