It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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