It is like confessing to a murder.

Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.