People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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?
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.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.