All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

But of works of art little can be said.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.