Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

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

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved