There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
Robert Louis StevensonExtreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
Robert Louis StevensonIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Robert Louis Stevenson