Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

An Inland Voyage: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes ; Underwoods ; A Child's Garden of Verses (ed. 1904)