If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

I don't settle. That's how I am.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

There is no end to renunciation.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

What is Valentines? Is it a restaurant name?