Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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…