If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…