“Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.”

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.