I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis StevensonTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis StevensonI am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
Robert Louis StevensonYouth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.
Robert Louis Stevenson