Robert Louis Stevenson

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.”

“Nothing made by brute force lasts.”

“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.”

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

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

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

“The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.”

“The world has no room for cowards.”

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

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

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

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

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”

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

“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 laught...”

“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”