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| For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation of thought is necessary. The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are not the sweetest things in life. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. The saints are the sinners who keep on going. The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
| (1850-1894) |
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