If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.Charles Darwin
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Darwin
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? Virginia Woolf
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. Virginia Woolf
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. Virginia Woolf
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. Ralph Waldo Emerson
