Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring 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?
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…