To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Dead men don't bite.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings
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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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