There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.