There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
Robert Louis StevensonBut even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
Robert Louis StevensonThe less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
Robert Louis Stevenson