"The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind—such were our ancestors."

"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions."

"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."

"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation."

"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…"