There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. -Robert Louis Stevenson Good
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 Marriage
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson Inspirational
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. -Robert Louis Stevenson Nature
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. -Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. -Robert Louis Stevenson Inspirational
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -Robert Louis Stevenson Good
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. -Robert Louis Stevenson Life
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson Travel
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -Robert Louis Stevenson Life
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. -Robert Louis Stevenson Good
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. -Robert Louis Stevenson Change