When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis StevensonYouth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
Robert Louis StevensonSome people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Robert Louis StevensonStrange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson