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.

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

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.

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