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

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

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

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

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."