Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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.
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.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.