If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.