More from Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
  2. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
  3. In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be…
  4. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
  5. I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
  6. In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
  7. Am I no a bonny fighter?
  8. I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baud…

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