Robert Louis Stevenson
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.Collection: Night
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.Collection: Writing
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.Collection: Goes On
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.Collection: Men
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.Collection: Men
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.Collection: Moving
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.Collection: Graduation
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it’s good fun.Collection: Fun
Do not forget that even as “to work is to worship” so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.Collection: Firsts