Who said “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”?

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”

“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.”

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”

“Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.”

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.”

“The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.”

“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”

“It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.”