We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.- Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
