If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit

Better never than late.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.