“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
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.”