Robert Louis Stevenson

“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”

“The obscurest epoch is today.”

“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.”

“Every man has a sane spot somewhere.”

“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor....”

“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes...”

“I've a grand memory for forgetting.”

“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”

“The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.”

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

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

“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

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

“Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.”

“He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.”

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

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

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

“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”