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."

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.