To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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

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

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.