There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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