Quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson

To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Across the Plains, ch. 12 (1892).
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