Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.