Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Progress has been much more general than retrogression

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.