Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.