We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

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

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.