Scottish Writer Quotes
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.


