Robert Louis Stevenson ( 10 of 59 )
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair read more
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is read more
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like read more
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.rn
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other read more
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but read more
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim read more
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim
of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point,
indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess
really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
