I Certainly Had No Idea How Little

We Do Not Believe In Immortality Because We Can't Prove It, But We Try To Prove It Because We Cannot Help Believing It.

Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit.

It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Be Hopeful And Aspiring. It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Break Up The Artificial Arrangements Of Conventionalism, And To View Mankind In True Perspective, In Their Gradations Of Inherent Rather Than Of Adventitious Worth. Genius Is Therefore Essentially Democratic, And Has Always Been So.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.

Scarcely Anything That I Observed In The United States Caused Me So Much Sorrow As The Contemptuous Estimate Of The People Entertained By Those Who Were Bowing The Knee To Be Permitted To Serve Them.