Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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

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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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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 feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

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A mate should keep himself to himself.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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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.

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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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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.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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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.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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You can't touch pitch and not be mucked.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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The obscurest epoch is today.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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