A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.
I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.