I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!