For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.