Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

But of works of art little can be said.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.