Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare read more

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is read more

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we read more

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, read more

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?