But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
Robert Louis StevensonHe who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
Robert Louis StevensonIn anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson