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 Read Quote
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
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. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
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. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. Robert Louis Stevenson Read Quote
