Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?Robert Louis Stevenson: The New Arabian Nights
Ancestry
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.Robert Louis Stevenson: Memories and Portraits
Books and Reading
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque
Courage
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.Robert Louis Stevenson
Death
Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson
Desire
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque
Health and Fitness
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque
Language
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque
Lying and Liars
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque
Morality and Ethics
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong.Robert Louis Stevenson: Across the Plains
Politics and Politicians
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.Robert Louis Stevenson: Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Religion
Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort.Robert Louis Stevenson: An Inland Voyage
The World
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey
Work
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque
Youth
Youth is wholly experimental.Robert Louis Stevenson
