Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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...

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

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

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

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and...

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...

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good...

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good...

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

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