Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.Collection: Great
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Marriage
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?Collection: Time
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.Collection: Friendship
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.Collection: Love
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.Collection: Inspirational
Wine is bottled poetry.Collection: Food
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.Collection: Travel
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.Collection: Travel
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.Collection: Travel
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Beauty
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.Collection: Good
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.Collection: Gardening
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.Collection: Marriage
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.Collection: Legal
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Collection: Courage
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.Collection: Thankful
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.Collection: Money
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.Collection: Motivational
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Collection: Business
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.Collection: Good
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.Collection: Good
Nothing like a little judicious levity.Collection: Humor
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Wisdom
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Respect
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.Collection: Health
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.Collection: Business
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.Collection: Marriage
To forget oneself is to be happy.Collection: Happiness
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Courage
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.Collection: Funny
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.Collection: Marriage
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.Collection: Communication
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.Collection: Success
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.Collection: Politics
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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 world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The world has no room for cowards.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.