Robert Louis Stevenson

"For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."

"Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living."

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

"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst."

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

"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."

"The Vagabond Give to me the life I love,Let the lave go by me,Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see,Bread I dip in the river -There's the life for a man like me,There's the life for ever. Let the blow fall soon or late,Let what will be o'er me;Give the face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. Or let autumn fall on me Where afield I linger,Silencing the bird on tree,Biting the blue finger. White as meal the frosty field -Warm the fireside haven -Not to autumn will I yield,Not to winter even!Let the blow fall soon or late,Let what will be o'er me;Give the face of earth around,And the road before me. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me."

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

"To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived."

"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

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