I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

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...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

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 marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

Every one lives by selling something.

Every one lives by selling something.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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...

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

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