Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage…

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success…

When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And…

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty…

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate…

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in…

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes…

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a…

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving…

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it…

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil…

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his…

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant…

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish…

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon…