To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against 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.
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?