To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

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

May the crushed spirit revived.

If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

Nothing is more natural to me than horror.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

I understand that people can start to say stop it, let me have a break and look at my emails without having an ad pop up.

Music is the love of my life. It’s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Laughing is medicine for the soul.