Quotes from Thomas Henry Huxley's books, and about them
The Art of Public Speaking on Lay Sermons: “simply uses with scrupulous exactness the methods which we all habitually, and at every moment, use carelessly. --THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, _Lay Sermons_.”
The Descent of Man on Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature: “Huxley, 'Man's Place in Nature,' 1863, p. 34.) Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairiness, etc., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.”
Farewell on Evolution and Ethics: “Among the students too it was the fashion to read new books, and above all Yan Fu's Chinese translation, the Tianyan Lun, won overwhelming popularity. It was a translation into classical Chinese of the naturalist Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, and one Sunday I went out to the south of the city to buy it myself. [auto-translated]”
In Ghostly Japan on On the Physical Basis of Life: “I never hear this singular proverb without being re-minded of a sentence in Huxley's famous essay, On the Physical Basis of Life:--"The living protoplasm not only ultimately dies and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless constituents, but is always dying”