Robert Louis Stevenson

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

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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

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.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.