His voice was low, clear and distinct...Professor Huxley's method is slow, precise, and clear, and he guards the positions that he takes with astuteness and ability. He does not utter anything in reckless fashion which conviction sometimes countenances and excuses, but rather with the deliberation that research and close inquiry foster.

The row was over Darwinism, but before it ended Darwinism was almost forgotten. What Huxley fought for was something far greater: the right of civilized men to…

All of us owe a vast debt to Huxley, especially all of us of English speech, for it was he, more than any other man, who worked that great change in human thou…

'Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the nineteenth century.'

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.