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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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

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

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...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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...

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from...

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from...

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.

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...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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...

No man is useless while he has a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think,...

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think,...

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.