"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed la…"

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

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

"We are not to be discouraged by the smallness of the means, but to remember that the greatest results are often produced by the accumulation of small effects."

"I have tried to be a good boy, and I have done my best."