Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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."

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.