Quote of the Day (Robert Louis Stevenson, on “Perpetual Devotion” to Business)

“But it is not only the person himself who suffers from his busy habits, but his wife and children, his friends and relations, and down to the very people he sits with in a railway carriage or an omnibus. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers”, Cornhill Magazine, July 1877

The image of Stevenson accompanying this post, by the way, is from a painting of Stevenson by John Singer Sargent.