"If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."

"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

"For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die."

"Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."

"Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species."

"It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected."

"A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct."

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen"

"Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction"

"The two great movers of the human mind are the desire for good, and the fear of evil"

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."

"The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation."

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."

"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence."

"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone."

"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."

"What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."

"I wanted the whole world or nothing."

"And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst."

"The Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love"

"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."

"I don't know if I have a favorite color."

"I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding."