I incline to Cain’s heresy, … I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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Context: The lawyer's habitual remark on his tolerance for other people's misdeeds.
Source: Story of the Door
I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we…
If he be Mr. Hyde, … I shall be Mr. Seek.
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and…
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful…
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could thus…