Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

More from Thomas Huxley

• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
• There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce. Victory comes in defending what we know is right while we still live.