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

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

We have happy days, remember good dinners.