“The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.”

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

Seek the love that you deserve & only then will you learn the value of self-worth.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.