Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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 and renews a weary spirit.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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. It is human at least, if not divine.