As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.

It is like confessing to a murder.

Only the fittest will survive.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.