we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
Charles DarwinSympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
Charles DarwinI feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.
Charles DarwinA mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Charles DarwinSome few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. Great God! how I should like to see the greatest curse on earth - slavery - abolished!
Charles Darwin