Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.