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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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.

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...

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

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

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

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...