Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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.