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

Sit loosely in the saddle.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.