As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.