Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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.
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.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?