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Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
    (topic: business)


  • The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
    (topic: solitude-loneliness)


  • For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    (topic: travel)


  • Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
    (topic: vanity)