It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.