Dead men don’t bite.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love, we serve; 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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson