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.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.