If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.