But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis StevensonI lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Robert Louis StevensonMoney alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.
Robert Louis Stevenson