I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey. The amateur emigrant. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays”
