The Writers' Museum

“The happiest lot on earth is to be born a Scotsman. You must pay for it in many ways, as for all other advantages on earth…. But somehow life is warmer and closer; the hearth burns more redly; the lights of home shine softer on the rainy street; the very names, endeared in verse and music, cling nearer round our hearts.”

 

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters, 1883