Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…