“I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”

“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”

“You could kill a bloke with rules, Tom knew that. And yet sometimes they were what stood between man and savagery, between man and monsters.”

“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll!”