"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."

"'Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.'"

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

"Listen: We are here to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."

"...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea."

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything"

"It may be that those who do most, dream most."

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"He who hesitates is sometimes saved."

"Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed."