Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.


Crabbed Age and Youth. - Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)


The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business...

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business...

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business...

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business...