>I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
>The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
>Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
>The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I don't know who Thomas Huxley is other than having heard his name thrown around but it seems like he had some genuinely good quotes in him