A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
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?
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.
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…