Robert louis stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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?

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.