What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

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

My senses are alive with pleasure and joy.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.