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.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

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."