Robert Louis StevensonThinkers

Absence is, in love, a good influence. It keeps it bright and delicate.

Achievement is among the more disenchanting things in life.

An Aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Beauty is quickly tired of. Nobody speaks of a beautiful view for five minutes.

Being right comes with time. A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

The Body is a house of many windows: There we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

The Book is good enough in its own way but offers a poor substitute for life.

The Book is always, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

Busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, in contrast to idleness which implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Busyness is a person who believes that a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Cannibalism is able to arouse our disgust more than anything, yet we make the same impression on buddhist and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Change is necessary to growth. To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.