A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.