You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.