Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

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 laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.