Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.