A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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…
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.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.