I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.