Quote: There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: There is but one art, to omit. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: To 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 Stevenson]
Quote: There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. 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 Stevenson]
Quote: Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: 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. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: A friend is a present you give to yourself. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: No man is useless while he has a friend. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: 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 Stevenson]
Quote: We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Every man has a sane spot somewhere. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Quote: Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. [Robert Louis Stevenson]