God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from an artist.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.