Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
The last I think; for, O poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come th...
Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and...
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and...
But what is the black spot, captain?