Robert Louis Stevenson

“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.”

“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”

“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”

“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”

“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”

“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”

“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”