Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis StevensonThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is better to be a fool, than to be dead.
Robert Louis StevensonYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis StevensonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis StevensonIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis StevensonAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis StevensonKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis StevensonEvery one lives by selling something.
Robert Louis StevensonWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis StevensonTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis StevensonMarriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis StevensonYou mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.
Robert Louis StevensonOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Robert Louis StevensonPeace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Robert Louis StevensonThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis StevensonI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis StevensonTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis StevensonSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis StevensonIf you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel
Robert Louis StevensonA man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.
Robert Louis StevensonYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
Robert Louis StevensonWhen I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis StevensonTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis StevensonMany's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.
Robert Louis Stevenson