Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry…

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and…

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others…

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords…

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible…

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by…

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good…

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand…

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect…

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and…

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy…

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The…

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary…

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect…

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has…