The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
Thomas HuxleyOf the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
Thomas HuxleyMake up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas HuxleyIt is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas HuxleySocial progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Thomas Huxley