To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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

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

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

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,...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

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

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

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...

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

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...

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.

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...

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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...

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.