Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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

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

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

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.

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.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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

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

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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 the dinner, the sweets come last.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

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