“PERPETUAL devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. And it is by no means certain that a man’s business is the most important thing that he has to do… Many make a large fortune, who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last. And meantime there goes the idler, who began life along with them – by your leave, a different picture. He has had time to take care of his health and spirits; he has been a great deal in the open air.”

From Stevenson’s essay “An Apology for Idlers”, written in 1876 when he was 25.