Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
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.
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.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?