Robert Louis Stevenson

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

"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."

"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."

"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."

"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."

"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."

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

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

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

"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."

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."