"I've a grand memory for forgetting."

"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change."

"Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."

"By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle."

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation."

"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."

"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."

"I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly."

"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."

"So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend."

"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."

"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"

"He should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past."

"It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity."

"Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand."

"No man is useless while he has a friend."

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."

"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."

"I have lost confidence in myself."

"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."

"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing."

"Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard."

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

"To forget oneself is to be happy."

"Every one lives by selling something."

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."

"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."

"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life."

"This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine. And in so far I was doubtless right. I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."

"Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living."

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

"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."

"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

"Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."

"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."

"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."

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

"The essence of love is kindness."

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

"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."

"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate."

"He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier."

"Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware! the root is wrapped aboutYour mother's heart, your father's bones;And like the mandrake comes with groans."

"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."

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

"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."