Robert Louis Stevenson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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.

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.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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