Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

There is but one art to omit.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

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

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

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

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.

Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.