To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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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...

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

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...

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...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

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.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

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

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

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.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the...

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the...

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...

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

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

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...

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...

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...