Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself...

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of...