"I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the …"

"[W]e have to get rid of the common illusion that the axioms of moral conduct, which are or appear to be natural to ou…"

"[T]though scientific travellers are comparatively few, yet out of their ranks a large proportion of the leaders in al…"

"General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of …"

"What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his …"

"I do not plead guilty to a shallow view of human nature, when I propose to apply, as it were, a foot-rule to its heig…"

"In the earlier part of his memoir, Sir Bartle Frere had compared our mode of treating uncivilized races to that of th…"

"I have received in a letter from a friend residing in , , the following account of a remarkably interesting meteorolo…"

"I said what I have to say about the modern use of the word "genius" in the preface to the second edition of my "Hered…"

"Count wherever you can."