Robert Louis Stevenson

“Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.”

“Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is t...”

“A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.”

“Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of d...”

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.”

“The cruellest lies are often told in silence.”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.”

“Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?”

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

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

“There is but one art, to omit.”

“Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age.”

“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.”

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

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

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”

“REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he...”

“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far w...”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”