Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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?
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.