To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

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...

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

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

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

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...

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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

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

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

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...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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...

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

The crown of literature is poetry.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it...

Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it...