Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
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.