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

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

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

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon." ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

Lines are very difficult to learn.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.