TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Virginibus Puerisque, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Swanston edn,
vol ii [London: Chatto and Windus, 1911], p. 371)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.