"I have gradually come to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation."

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the hi…"

"I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship."

"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World."

"We are like a judge who has to sum up and deliver judgment, not on the evidence of witnesses, but on the arguments of counsel."