Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.1,1 Mar.

The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign† They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.

-Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Autobiography (published1847).

   Totakeanalmost religiousview, thisearthisnothing very special.There have probably been millions of earths just like ours each producing a particular intelligent species. That isnottosay thattheyall developed well, thattheyall achieved some sort of perfection. And if the planner made lots of them and some of them chose to destroy themselves,thenwe canonlysupposethattheplanner is a hard and practical man.

-Hoyle, Sir Fred
  In the Daily Mail.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Female of the Species'.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'The Two Races of Men'.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

-Laver,James
  The Concise History of Costume and Fashion, ch.8.

How beastly the bourgeois is Especially the male of the species.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  'How Beastly the Bourgeois Is'.

The human species is, to some extent, the result of mistakes which arrested our development and prevented us from assuming the somewhat unglamorous form of our primitive ancestors.

-Miller,JonathanWolfe
  The Body in Question.

Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique, desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant. No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there's nothing in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth isno morethan incipient change froma prior state, while dying is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.

-Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317
Metamorphoses, bk.15, l.252^8 (translated by Peter Green).

We had better remain in union with England, even at the risk of becoming a subordinate species of Northumberland, as far as national consequence is concerned, than remedy ourselves by even hinting the possibility of a rupture. But there is no harm in wishing Scotland tohavejust somuchill-nature, according toher own proverb, as may keep her good-nature from being abused.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the Proposed Change of Currency, letter1.

De natura Rationis est, res sub quadam aeternitatis specie percipere. It is the nature of reason to perceive things under a certain species of eternity.

-Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.2, prop.44, corollary 2.

The classical economists were not wholly free from error, for they were only mortals, even if of a superior species.

-Viner,Jacob
  The LongView and the Short.

Thereisa species of personcalleda'ModernChurchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.2, ch.4.