Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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

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

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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

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

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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