Robert Louis Stevenson

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.