The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.