Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.