Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
Robert Louis StevensonHe who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
Robert Louis StevensonWhen we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stevenson