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.
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.
It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.
You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.
A good conscience is eight parts of courage.
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.