Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

The present is the key to the past

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.