"Eccentricity has always abounded when and wherever strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained."
"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."
"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way."
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."