I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

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

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

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

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.

The man who walks with Henslow.