“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
More from Robert Louis Stevenson
“No man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids; but in the warm, phantasmagoric…”
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde,…”
“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on…”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”