It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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