To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.