Charles Darwin Quote

Children are one's greatest happiness, but often and often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none — perhaps not a wife; for then there would be nothing in this wide world worth caring for, and a man might (whether he could is another question) work away like a Trojan.


In: Francis Darwin (ed.), More Letters of Charles Darwin (Volume 1)


Children are one's greatest happiness, but often and often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none — perhaps not a wife; for...

Children are one's greatest happiness, but often and often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none — perhaps not a wife; for...

Children are one's greatest happiness, but often and often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none — perhaps not a wife; for...

Children are one's greatest happiness, but often and often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none — perhaps not a wife; for...