Robert Louis Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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.

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

You can kill the body, but not the spirit.