A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.