To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.