Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps