Make up your mind to be happy.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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

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.