If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?