"You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man--or scarce a man yet--the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond, my lord. It's the way I am made. If the country has to fall, it has to fall. And I pray God, if this is wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late."

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

"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."

"At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion."

"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."

"They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener."

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

"Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?""Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"..."

"Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself."

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

"The cruellest lies are often told in silence."

"I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."

"Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative."

"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature."

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."

"There was something strange in my sensations, indescribably new and incredibly sweet. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be tenfold more wicked and the thought delighted me like wine."

"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."

"It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place."

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."

"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."

"You must suffer me to go my own dark way."

"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."

"Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor."

"An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils"."

"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring."

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

"That child of Hell had nothing human, nothing lived in him but fear and hatred."

"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"Saints are sinners who kept on going."

"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

"The obscurest epoch is today."

"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."

"The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

"The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea."

"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser."

"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."

"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."

"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."

"Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:-and now I like ye better!"

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."