Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
