Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

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

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.

The essence of love is kindness.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.

The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.

An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.