No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…