In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.