Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against 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.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?