Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love (Unabridged)

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE III: On falling in love: 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!'
THERE is only one event in life which really astonishes a man and startles him out of his prepared opinions. Everything else befalls him very much as he expected.