To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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."