More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859

You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husband Charles

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa.

'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.'

'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.'

And so Charles did.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles