The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly.
A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning;.
Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is – nor yet so good a Christian.
It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;.
In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.
Trelawney,” said the doctor, “contrary to all my notions, I believed you have managed to get two honest men on board with you – that man and John Silver.
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
I thought it was madness,” he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, “and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.
Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham – the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.
Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.
The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest.
The woman who can manage, like the man who can fight, must never shrink from an encounter. The knight must not disgrace his weapons.
We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not live to make others.
Her eyes took hold upon mine and clung there, and bound us together like the joining of hands; and the moments we thus stood face to face, drinking each other in, were sacramental and the wedding of souls.
Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.
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.
Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.
To flee was more than I could find courage for; but I registered a vow of unsleeping circumspection.
Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it. I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.