Robert Louis Stevenson

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?

The obscurest epoch is today.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.