Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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?